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Job 4:16Job.4.16

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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Translations

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],

Patristic reading

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  • 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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