Holy Scripture
Job 6:9
A church father on this verse
“He who asks to be wounded does not pray out of exhaustion that his prayer might be granted but in order to fulfill his task. This task was to fulfill the right deeds or to make visible to the friends for their benefit the reason for the hardships, [namely,] that they had been imposed as a test. Then they would not mak…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
9Let the Lord begin and wound me, But let him not utterly destroy me.
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7For my wrath cannot cease; For I perceive my food as the smell of a lion to be loathsome.
8For oh that he would grant my desire, and my petition might come, And the Lord would grant my hope!
— Job 6:9 —
10Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it; For I have not denied the holy words of my God.
11For what is my strength, that I continue? What is my time, that my soul endures?