“This is what Job means, you show wisdom in the misfortunes of other people. Since you are far away from my misfortunes, you admonish me while you experience a peaceful life. This remark is an answer to the words that were said earlier, "You have instructed many." "You have strengthened the feeble knees." "But now misf…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 6:2A-3A
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2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
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1But Job answered and said,
— Job 6:2 —
3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.