“Notice how Eliphaz anticipates possible objections. "Do not say to me, 'Often they also had children.' Yes, but never for a long time." Since it made good sense to ask, "If Job was a sinner, how had he come to possess such great wealth?" Eliphaz responds, "I have seen fools taking root." You see that by fool he means…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 5:3
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3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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1Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
2For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
— Job 5:3 —
4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.