“Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox at his full manger? ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION For what is denoted by 'the onager,' that is, the wild ass, saving the Gentile people, which, as nature has produced it without the stalls of training, so has continued roaming abroad in the field of its pleasure…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book VII
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5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
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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.
— Job 6:5 —
6Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
7The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.