“Let not then anger overcome thee, to oppress any one, neither let the multitude of places bow thee down. In most manuscripts we find 'gifts;' in a few, however, but more ancient, we find 'places.' But since the expression, Let not the multitude of gifts turn thee aside, needs no explanation, we have thought good that…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVI
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18Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
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16Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
17But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
— Job 36:18 —
19Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
20Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.