Job 40:3 (WEB)
Then Job answered the LORD,
Fathers and councils · 4
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VI.11Conference VI
“To Job also: “Thinkest thou that I have spoken for any other cause than that thou mightest be seen to be righteous?”” — editor's note: Job xl. 3 (LXX.).
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John Chrysostom
“At any rate, when he heard, “Thinkest thou that I have uttered to thee mine oracles for nought, or that thou mightest be proved righteous?”consider how straightway, at a bare word, he breathed again, how he made himself of no account, how he accounted himself not so much as to have suffered what he…” — editor's note: Job xl. 3, LXX.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“At the end however of all his trials the righteous Law-giver explained the reason of them in the words, “Dost thou think that I answered thee for any other reason than that thou mightest appear just?”” — editor's note: Job xl. 3, lxx.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“At the end of the contests He declares the victory of the athlete in a splendid proclamation and lays bare the secret of his calamities, saying: “Thinkest thou that I have dealt with thee for any other purpose than the manifestation of thy righteousness?”” — editor's note: Job xl. 3 (LXX.).
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