Job 39:8
He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Circumspicit montes pascuæ suæ, et virentia quæque perquirit.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- κατασκέψεται ὄρη, νομὴν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὀπίσω παντὸς χλωροῦ ζητεῖ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- יְת֣וּר הָרִ֣ים מִרְעֵ֑הוּ וְאַחַ֖ר כָּל יָר֣וֹק יִדְרֽוֹשׁ
The Fathers on this verse
St John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part III. Containing Conferences XVIII.-XXIV, Chapter VI. Of the system of the Anchorites and its beginning
Out of this number of the perfect, and, if I may use the expression, this most fruitful root of saints, were produced afterwards the flowers and fruits of the anchorites as well. And of this order we have heard that the originators were those whom we mentioned just now; viz., Saint Paul and Antony, men who frequented the recesses of the desert, not as some from faintheartedness, and the evil of impatience, but from a desire for loftier heights of perfection and divine contemplation, although the former of them is said to have found his way to the desert by reason of necessity, while during the time of persecution he was avoiding the plots of his neighbours. …