The Nature of Job's Friends' Counsel
There are many accusers of evils. By doing so, they show that, having been with men, he has heard much.nd since they bring their accusations to those in distress without distinction, as if to separate them as bad ones, it is appropriate—just as the three friends have done—that he brought the phrase 'all are accusers of evils,' meaning that all, through ignorance of what is happening differently than it ought, either raise up or contract the painful things; or he said 'all' regarding the three, for from this number comes the multitude. What's the point? Is not the arrangement of words a matter of the spirit? spirit? spirit? Gap exhortation.' Even if others, suffering and lamenting, are satisfied with their own lamentations, by this the salvation of friends is to be preferred.6b: 'And if I keep silent, how much less shall I be wounded?' 'And if indeed in silence,' he says, 'I were to contain the insults, I would not only fail to attain the glory of philosophy, but on the contrary, I would be judged much more unlawfully for the silence of one thought to be conscious of the things being said.' He had not previously done this, but it happened because the adversary requested it. 'Foolish' here means the insensitivity; for 'having struck' is joined to this.
Greek
πολλά· παρακλήτορες κακῶν πάντες. δείκνυσιν διὰ τούτων, ὡς συνὼν ἀνθρώποις οἶδεν πολλὰ ἀκούσας. καὶ ἐπεὶ ἀδιαφόρως τοῖς ἐν π̣ερισ̣τ̣άσεσιν οὖσιν προσάγουσιν τὰς παρακλήσεις μετὰ τοῦ διακεῖσθαι περὶ αὐτῶν ὡς φαύλων, εἰκότως, καθὰ καὶ οἱ τρεῖς πεποιήκασιν φίλοι, ἐπήγαγεν τὸ "παρακλήτορες κακῶν πάντες" σημαίνων ἤτοι ὅτι πάντες ἀγνοίᾳ τῶν συμβαινόντων ἑτέρως ἢ ὡς δεῖ φθέγγονται ἐγείροντες μᾶλλον ἢ συστέλλοντες τὰ ἀνιαρά, ἢ τοὺς τρεῖς "πάντας" εἶπεν· καὶ γὰρ ἀπὸ τούτου τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ τὸ πλῆθος. τί γάρ; μὴ τάξις ἐστὶν ῥήμασιν πνεύ409 ματος; – – – ξατ 13 ιοβ 16,6α ἐὰν γὰρ λαλήσω, οὐκ ἀλγήσω τὸ τραῦμα. θέλει τὴν διάθεσιν αὐτοῦ τὴν γνησίαν ἐπιδείξασθαι ὅτι «ἐμοὶ μέλει τῆς ὑμετέρας σωτηρίας, ὥστε εἰ καὶ ἀλγῶ, χρῶμαι τῇ παραινέσει». εἰ γὰρ καὶ ἄλλοι ἀλγοῦντες καὶ ἀνιώμενοι ἀρκοῦνται ταῖς καθ' ἑαυτοὺς ἀνίαις, ἀλλὰ τούτῳ ἡ σωτηρία τῶν φίλων προκριτέα. ιοβ 16,6β ἐὰν δὲ καὶ σιωπήσω, τί ἔλαττον τρωθήσομαι; «εἰ δὲ καὶ σιωπῇ», φησίν, «ἐνέγκαι τὰ ὀνείδη βουληθείην, οὐ μόνον φιλοσοφίας δόξαν οὐκ ἀποίσομαι, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον μειζόνως ὡς παράνομος κριθήσομαι τῆς σιωπῆς ἀπὸ τοῦ περὶ τὰ λεγόμενα συνειδότος γίνεσθαι νομιζομένης.» ιοβ 16,7 νῦν δὲ κατάκοπόν με πεποίηκεν, μωρόν, σεσηπότα κατ' αὐτοὺς καὶ τοῦτο λέγει φάσκων ἐκ θεοῦ τοῦτο αὐτῷ συμβεβηκέναι· οὐχ οὕτως δὲ εἶχε τὸ πρᾶγμα. εἰ γὰρ καὶ ὁ θεὸς συνεχώρησεν, ἀλλά γε οὐ προηγουμένως τοῦτο πεποίηκεν, ἀλλ' ἐξαιτησαμένου τοῦ ἀντικειμένου. "μωρὸν" δὲ ἐνταῦθα τὸ ἀναίσθητον· συνῆψε γὰρ τούτῳ τὸ "σεσηπότα". ιοβ 16,8α καὶ ἐλάβετό μου, εἰς μαρτύριον ἐγενήθη τὸ "ἐπελάβετό μου" ἀντὶ τοῦ «καθήψατο». τοῦτο δὲ εἰς μαρτύριόν μοι ἐγενήθη. καὶ γὰρ τῷ ὄντι ἡ ἀνδρεία τοῦ μακαρίου Ἰὼβ πᾶσιν ἐξάκουστος ἐξετέθη. 103
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Didymus the Blind on Job.
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