Holy Scripture

Job 6:23

A church father on this verse

“Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give me of your substance? or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION If these words are referred to the person of Holy Church, as we have said that blessed Job's friends bear the likeness of heretics, he rightly declares th…”

Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book VII

Source: Septuagint

Original

²³To deliver me from enemies, Or to rescue me from the hand of the mighty ones?

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²¹But ye also have come to me without pity; So that beholding my wound ye are afraid.

²²What? have I made any demand of you? Or do I ask for strength from you,

— Job 6:23 —

²⁴Teach ye me, and I will be silent: If in anything I have erred, tell me.

²⁵But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, Because I do not ask strength of you.

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