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Job 42:7Job.42.7

And it was [so], that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me [the thing that is] right, as my servant Job [hath].

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Après que l'Eternel eut adressé ces paroles à Job, il dit à Eliphaz de Théman: Ma colère est enflammée contre toi et contre tes deux amis, parce que vous n'avez pas parlé de moi avec droiture comme l'a fait mon serviteur Job.

KJV

And it was [so], that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me [the thing that is] right, as my servant Job [hath].

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    h God be so easily silenced?" And yet Job was not guilty of mortal sin, since the Lord said of him ( Job 42:7 ): "You have not spoken the thing that is right before me, as my servant Job hath." Therefore contention is not always a mortal sin. On the contrary, It is against the pr…

  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 133 (Migne)

    nisi sententiam judicis audiret, qui ait: «Non estis locuti coram me rectum, sicut servus meus Job (Job XLII, 7) .» Sed nos qui jam a Deo mente recessimus, et carne ad pulverem redimus, poena duplae mortis astringimur. Sed venit ad nos qui pro nobis sola carne moreretur, qui simp…

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