“For when He giveth peace, who is there to condemn? since He hath hidden His face, who is there that can look on Him? Whence also, from his awe at those boundless and unfathomable judgments, he does not care to discuss them with reasoning, but to venerate them with admiration. Let no one then discuss, why the Gentile w…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXV
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29When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:
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27Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:
28So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
— Job 34:29 —
30That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
31Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: