Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Job 16:21

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 453, footnote 5 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 5155 (In-Text, Margin)

A. You have cited passages which have been detached not only from the rest of Scripture, but from the books in which they occur. For even Job, after he was stricken with the plague, is convicted of having spoken many things against the ruling of God, and to have summoned Him to the bar:[Job 16:21] “Would that a man stood with God in the judgment as a son of man stands with his fellow.” And again: “Oh that I had one to hear me! that the Almighty might hear my desire, and that the judge would himself write a book!” And again: “Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse. If I wash myself ...