Job 19:16
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Servum meum vocavi, et non respondit : ore proprio deprecabar illum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- θεράποντά μου ἐκάλεσα, καὶ οὐχ ὑπήκουσεν· στόμα δέ μου ἐδέετο,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לְעַבְדִּ֣י קָ֭רָאתִי וְלֹ֣א יַעֲנֶ֑ה בְּמוֹ פִ֝֗י אֶתְחַנֶּן לֽוֹ
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom Three Homilies Concerning the Power of Demons, Homily III. On the Power of Man to Resist the Devil
Behold then! thou hast seen poverty and disease, and both in the extremest degree brought upon this just man. Dost thou wish that I should shew thee the warfare at nature’s hands, in such excessive degree waged then against this noble man? He lost ten children, the ten at one fell swoop, the ten in the very bloom of youth, ten who displayed much virtue, and that not by the common law of nature, but by a violent and pitiable death. Who could be able to recount so great a calamity? No one. Whenever therefore thou losest son and daughter together, have recourse to this just man, and thou shalt find altogether much comfort for thyself. Were these then the only misfortunes which happened to him? The desertion and treachery of his friends, and the gibes, and raillery, and the mockery and derision, and the tearing in pieces by all, was something intolerable. …