“Eliphaz, still clinging to the same principle … that Job's critical circumstances were due to Job's own sins, adds these words, "Since they could not help themselves through virtue by repenting of their evils, these afflictions befell them." And Eliphaz suggests that he fully comprehends this situation. They perished…”
Didymus the Blind, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 4:20-21
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21Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
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19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.