“I was afraid of all my works, knowing that Thou wouldest not spare me, when guilty of transgression. What were the works that blessed Job practised, the text of this sacred history makes plain. For he studied to propitiate his Maker by numberless burnt offerings; in that according to the number of his sons, as it is w…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book IX
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28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
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26They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
— Job 9:28 —
29If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;