Holy Scripture

Job 36:10

A church father on this verse
“He will open also their ear, to correct them, and will speak to them that they return from iniquity. To 'open the ear from iniquity,' is to lay open the understanding of knowledge. But a man is reproved, and his ear opened, when he feels within him a desire after eternal goods, and acknowledges the sins which he has o…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVI

Source: Septuagint

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10But he will hearken to the righteous: And he has said that they shall turn from unrighteousness.

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8But they that are bound in fetters Shall be holden in cords of poverty.

9And he shall recount to them their works, And their transgressions, for such will act with violence.

— Job 36:10 —

11If they should hear and serve him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in honor.

12But he preserves not the ungodly; because they are not willing to know the Lord, And because when reproved they were disobedient.

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