Holy Scripture

Job 5:4

A church father on this verse
“MYSTICAL INTERPRETATION. His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither shall there be any to deliver them. They all are 'the children' of this foolish man, who are generated by the preaching of that unbelief, and these 'are far from safety,' for though they enjoy the temporal life without…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book VI

Source: Septuagint

Original

4Let their children be far from safety, And let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.

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2For wrath destroys the foolish one, And envy slays him that has gone astray.

3And I have seen foolish ones taking root: But suddenly their habitation was devoured.

— Job 5:4 —

5For what they have collected, the just shall eat; But they shall not be delivered out of calamities: Let their strength be utterly exhausted.

6For labor cannot by any means come out of the earth, Nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:

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