“"Did you know then that you would be born?" These words are not said without purpose but to demonstrate that God's benevolence is the reason for everything. If you owe the fact that you exist to my benevolence, since you did not exist before, he says, how can you think that [benevolence] is denied to you, now that you…”
Julian of Eclanum, 5th c. — EXPOSITION ON THE BOOK OF JOB 38:18-21
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21Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?
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19Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
20That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
— Job 38:21 —
22Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
23Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?