Holy Scripture
Job 7:19
A church father on this verse
“How long wilt Thou not depart from me, nor let me alone until I swallow down my spittle. The spittle runs into the mouth from the head, but from the mouth it is carried into the belly by being swallowed. And what is our head saving the Deity, through Whom we derive the original of our being, so as to be 'creature,' as…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
19How long dost thou not let me alone, Nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?
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17For what is man, that thou hast magnified him? Or that thou givest heed to him?
18Wilt thou visit him till the morning, And judge him till the time of rest?
— Job 7:19 —
20If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O thou that understandest the mind of men? Why hast thou made me as thine accuser, And why am I a burden to thee?
21Why hast thou not forgotten my iniquity, And purged my sin? But now I shall depart to the earth; And in the morning, I am no more.