Holy Scripture
Job 39:7
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“He scorneth the multitude of the city. 56. To scorn the multitude of the city, is to avoid the evil employments of human conversation, so as no longer to take pleasure in imitating the abandoned manners of earthly men, who, through the abundance of iniquity, are many. For they desire to enter, with the few, the narrow…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, And hears not the chiding of the tax gatherer.
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5And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? And who loosed his bands?
6Whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, And the salt land his coverts.
— Job 39:7 —
8He will survey the mountains as his pasture, And he seeks after every green thing.
9And will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, Or to lie down at thy manger?