Holy Scripture

Job 38:14

A church father on this verse
“The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment. [ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION] What else but 'clay' did the Lord find the people of Israel, whom He came unto when given up to the practices of the Gentiles, and toiling at bricks in Egypt? And whilst He led it forth by so many miracles to the land of pro…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIX

Source: Septuagint

Original

14Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, And set it with the power of speech upon the earth?

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12Or did I order the morning light in thy time; And did the morning star then first see his appointed place;

13To lay hold of the extremities of the earth, To cast out the ungodly out of it?

— Job 38:14 —

15And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, And crushed the arm of the proud?

16Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, And walked in the tracks of the deep?

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