Holy Scripture

Job 39:12

A church father on this verse
“Wilt thou trust him, to bring back thy seed to thee, and to gather thy floor? 9. What else is meant by 'seed,' but the word of preaching? As the Truth says in the Gospel, A sower went forth to sow; [Matt. 13, 3] and as the Prophet says; Blessed are ye who sow upon all waters. [Is. 32, 20] What else but the Church, oug…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXXI

Source: Septuagint

Original

12And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed, And bring it in to thy threshing floor?

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In context

10And wilt thou bind his yoke with thongs, Or will he plow furrows for thee in the plain?

11And dost thou trust him, because his strength is great? And wilt thou commit thy works to him?

— Job 39:12 —

13The peacock has a beautiful wing: If the stork and the ostrich conceive, it is worthy of notice,

14For the ostrich will leave her eggs in the ground, And warm them on the dust,

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