“Hearken unto these things, O Job, stand, and consider the wondrous works of God. He saw him to be lying down, as it were, in comparison with himself, whom he directed to stand at the words of so great preaching. Although even by this word, 'Listen' which he uses, he inflicts a grievous insult upon Job: because, as we…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVII
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14Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
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12And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
13He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
— Job 37:14 —
15Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
16Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?