It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image [was] before mine eyes, [there was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],
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Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Une figure d'un aspect inconnu était devant mes yeux, Et j'entendis une voix qui murmurait doucement:
KJV
It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image [was] before mine eyes, [there was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],
Clemens Romanus (Clement of Rome)
Epistula I ad Corinthios
υκτηρίζουσιν, ἑαυτοὺς βουλόμενοι ἐπαίρεσθαι ταῖς διανοίαις αὐτῶν. τί γὰρ δύναται θνητός; ἢ τίς ἰσχὺς Job 4, 16-18; 15, 16; 4, 19-5, 6 γηγενοῦς; γέγραπται γάρ: Οὐκ ἦν μορφὴ πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν μου, ἀλλ̓ ἢ αὔραν καὶ φωνὴν ἤκουον: Τί γάρ; μὴ καθαρὸς ἔσται βροτὸς ἔναντι κυρίου; ἢ ἀπὸ τῶν ἔρ…
Theodulf of Orleans
Concerning the Holy Spirit
what is of the Son, indicating that He also proceeds from Him. I heard a voice like a gentle breeze Job 4:16. What is meant by the voice of a gentle breeze, if not the knowledge of the Holy Spirit, who, proceeding from the Father and taking from what is of the Son, is softly infu…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
orporeal: and consequently the same conclusion follows. Objection 5: Further, Gregory, commenting on Job 4:16, "There stood one whose countenance I knew not," says (Moral. v): "Man who, had he been willing to obey the command, would have been spiritual in the flesh, became, by si…
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