Holy Scripture

Job 5:8

A church father on this verse
“Eliphaz says, "You did not devote yourself to prayer. As for me, I would commit my cause to God. You have reassured yourself and ceased from invoking 'the Lord of all things.' This is why the present afflictions befell you." After speaking, Eliphaz glorified God and aroused Job's anger.”
Hesychius of Jerusalem, 5th c. — HOMILIES ON JOB 8.5.8

Source: Septuagint

Original

8Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, And will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;

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

7Yet man is born to labor, And even so the vulture’s young seek the high places.

— Job 5:8 —

9Who does great things and untraceable, Glorious things also, and marvelous, of which there is no number:

10Who gives rain upon the earth, Sending water on the earth:

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