“"You would even attack the orphan," that is, me, for I am deprived of any human assistance. And since God is "the Father of the orphans," you make him angry by offending me. "And you would trample your friend underfoot" with your words. You trample him even more violently than with your feet, and you scorn the laws of…”
Hesychius of Jerusalem, 5th c. — HOMILIES ON JOB 9.6.27
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27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
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25How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
— Job 6:27 —
28Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
29Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.