“"Who is there like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water?" [Job is compared with one] who reproves God's judgments, despises them and thinks that they must be considered vile. "Who goes in company with evildoers"; since he has an ill feeling against the judgments of God, he does not differ at all from those who are p…”
Julian of Eclanum, 5th c. — EXPOSITION ON THE BOOK OF JOB 34:7-8
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8Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
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6Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
7What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
— Job 34:8 —
9For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
10Therefore hearken unto me ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.