Holy Scripture

Job 7:10

A church father on this verse
“He shall return no more to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more. For 'the place' of man, but not a local place, the Creator Himself became, Who created him to have his being in Himself, which same place man did then forsake, when on hearing the words of the deceiver, he forsook the love of the Crea…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book VIII

Source: Septuagint

Original

10And he shall surely not return to his own house, Neither shall his place know him anymore.

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In context

8The eye of him that sees me shall not see me again: Thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more.

9I am as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: For if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again:

— Job 7:10 —

11Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; Being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.

12Am I a sea, or a serpent, That thou hast set a watch over me?

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