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Job 19:8Job.19.8

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Il m'a fermé toute issue, et je ne puis passer; Il a répandu des ténèbres sur mes sentiers.

KJV

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    e on account of some deed. Now after death men are no longer wayfarers, because to them the words of Job 19:8, refer: "He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass." Therefore the dead cannot be assisted by a person's suffrages. Objection 4: Further, no one is assiste…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 157 (Migne)

    x arido fiat viride, quando senuerit in terra radix ejus, et in pulvere mortuus fuerit truncus ejus (Job XIX, 8, 9) . Ad odorem enim aquae, ad glorificationem glorificati Spiritus, finita fine infinito nomina, et arescentia [Col. 0321A] olivae in domo Domini fructiferae germina…

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