“Who will tell Him the things which I say? Even if a man shall speak, he shall be swallowed up. As if he plainly said; The unheard truths which I declare to Him, from an acute sense of His praises, who can repeat, even after he has heard them? But because, when learning and arrogance contend together in the habitation…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVII
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20Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
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In context
18Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
19Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
— Job 37:20 —
21And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
22Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.