Holy Scripture

Job 36:16

A church father on this verse
“He will therefore bring thee safely from a narrow opening into a broad place. Every one who forsakes the way of life, and casts himself down into the darkness of sins, plunges himself, as it were, into a well or pitfall. But if, through long commission he is also so weighed down by a habit of sin, as to be unable to r…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVI

Source: Septuagint

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16And he has also enticed thee out of the mouth of the enemy:

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14Therefore let their soul die in youth, And their life be wounded by messengers of death.

15Because they afflicted the weak and helpless: And he will vindicate the judgment of the meek.

— Job 36:16 —

17There is a deep gulf and a rushing stream beneath it, And thy table came down full of fatness. Judgment shall not fail from the righteous;

18But there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, By reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities.

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