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Louis Segond 1910
Pour que la poussière se mette à ruisseler, Et que les mottes de terre se collent ensemble?
KJV
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)
ur. Pulvis, quilibet peccator, ut in Job: «Quando fundebatur pulvis in terra [Note: [Col. 1033] 13 Job XXXVIII, 38.] ,» quod peccator nonnunquam a mollitia sua, inspirante Deo, ad stabilitatem convertitur. Pulvis, infirma actio, ut in Job: «Tu forsitan in pulvere calefacies…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 193 (Migne)
Dominus beatum Job interrogat dicens: Quando fundabatur pulvis in terra, et glebae compingebantur? (Job XXXVIII, 38.) Glebae quippe ex humore coagulantur et pulvere. In hac itaque terra, id est Ecclesia glebae compactae sunt, quia vocati peccatores, et per sancti Spiritus gratiam…
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