“They will cry out, by reason of the multitude of oppressors, and will wail on account of the force of the arm of tyrants. We can rightly term all the ungodly 'oppressors,' not those only, who spoil our outward goods, but those, also, who endeavour by their wicked habits, and by the example of their reprobate life, to…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVI
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9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
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7If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
8Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
— Job 35:9 —
10But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?