Holy Scripture

Job 9:27

A church father on this verse
“If I say, I will never speak thus; I change my countenance, and am tormented with grief. For the Jewish People would not speak as before, in that it denied Him, Whom it had foretold; but with changed countenance it is tormented with grief, in that while it defiled with the foulness of unbelief the aspect of its inward…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book IX

Source: Septuagint

Original

27And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;

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In context

25But my life is swifter than a post: My days have fled away, and they knew it not.

26Or again, is there a trace of their path left by ships? Or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey?

— Job 9:27 —

28I quake in all my limbs, For I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent.

29But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?

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