Job 9:24 (WEB)
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
Fathers and councils · 5
Augustine of Hippo
““The earth is given into the hands of the wicked.”” — editor's note: Job ix. 24.
Read the whole comment“Rage then the Jews; be “the earth given into the hands of the wicked,” be the flesh left to the hands of persecutors, let them on wood suspend it, with nails transfix it, with a spear pierce it.” — editor's note: Job ix. 24.
Read the whole comment“Or hath He stuck, and was not, as hath been said in the book of Job, “the earth delivered into the hands of the ungodly man”?” — editor's note: Job ix. 24.
Read the whole comment“That which a certain scripture says: “The earth was delivered into the hands of the ungodly.”” — editor's note: Job ix. 24.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Often were the righteous given into the hands of the wicked, not that the latter might be honoured, but that the former might be tested: and though the wicked come, as it is written, to an awful death, nevertheless for…” — editor's note: Job ix. 24.
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