Blameless scorn; Eliphaz’s call to turn; Job swears by the living Lord

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works — that is, houses filled with goods. "A blameless one sneered at them" — at the counsel of the impious who teach opposite the truth with wretched doctrines. "Fire will eat their remnant." "He took from his mouth an exposition:" Origen found another edition reading confession — Confess your sins; take from God’s mouth an introduction with confession; take up his words from your heart. Eliphaz said this thinking he admonished Job. "If you turn and humble yourself before the Lord." "As a rock of a winter-torrent of Ophir:" from the gold-place your word will come varied and beautiful. "The Almighty will be a helper from enemies" if you subject yourself and confess. "He will render you pure as fired silver." Then free speech before the Lord, sins put away. "Upon your ways there will be light; he will restore a way of life of righteousness." Said toward Job unjustly — he did not sin — but toward us, justly.

Chapter 23: "His hand has become heavy upon my groan." If the vote of punishments could be brought at once, he could find him. Would that he could go to court, petition, and learn what God would say to what Job would say. See how he obtained what he prayed — it comes last in the book. He wanted to know the answer, and whether punishment would continue; he said this not as condemning injustice.

Chapter 24: bread sweetened for younger ones — sweet to the impious to feed young men so as to work insults through them. Chapter 27: "The Lord lives, who has thus judged me." The devil received authority and tested Job night and day — first through outward things, later through the body, then through friends. When the wife did not conquer him, three friends came — not enemies with plotting doctrines, but true words badly and out of season. Through them the devil planned to make Job speak against Providence, turn impious under toil, and grow weary under pain. The truly courageous man — after Eliphaz’s three dialogues and Sophar’s two, when they fell silent — answers after the Scripture-named preface. "The Lord lives, who has thus judged me, and the Almighty who has embittered my soul." I know from where

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ἔργων. Τουτέστι τὸ πληρωθῆναι οἴκους ἀγαθῶν. Στίχ. ιθʹ. Ἄμεμπτος δὲ ἐμυκτήρισεν αὐτούς. Τίνας; ἢ τὴν βουλὴν τῶν ἀσεβῶν; Οἷον· βούλονταί τινα διδάσκειν τὰ ἐναντία τῇ ἀληθείᾳ, ἐν τῷ λέ γειν· ἃ λέγουσι δόγματα μοχθηρὰ ἔχοντες. Ταῦτα ἄμεμπτος ὁρῶν μυκτηρίζει. Στίχ. κʹ. Καὶ τὸ κατάλειμμα αὐτῶν καταφάγεται πῦρ. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. Τοῦτο ὃ καταλέλειπται κατὰ τοὺς ἀσεβεῖς, τῶν προτέρων ἀποθανόντων, τὸ πῦρ κατα φάγεται. Στίχ. κβʹ. Ἔλαβε δὲ ἐκ στόματος αὐτοῦ ἐξηγο ρίαν. Τὴν ἐξηγορίαν ἐζήτουν κατ' ἐμαυτὸν, τί σημαίνει. Καὶ εὗρον ἐν ἄλλῃ ἐκδόσει ἀντ' αὐτῆς ἐξομολόγησιν· Φησὶν οὖν μᾶλλον· Ἐξομολόγησαι περὶ τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων σου· ἔκλαβε ἀπὸ τοῦ στόματος τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰσηγορίαν σὺν ἐξομολογήσει· ἀνάλαβε δὲ τὰ ῥήματα αὐτοῦ ἐκ καρδίας σου. Ταῦτα δὲ ἔλεγεν ὁ Ἐλιφὰζ, νουθετῶν, ὡς ᾤετο, τὸν Ἰώβ. Στίχ. κγʹ. Ἐὰν δὲ ἐπιστραφῇς, καὶ ταπεινώσῃς σεαυτὸν ἔναντι Κυρίου. Νουθετεῖ αὐτὸν πρὸς τὸ ἐπιστρέψαι, οἰόμενος αὐ τὸν ταῦτα ἡμαρτηκότα πεπονθέναι. Στίχ. κδʹ. Καὶ ὡς πέτρα χειμάῤῥου Σωφείρ. Ἐκ τοῦ τόπου οὗ γίνεται τὸ χρυσίον, ἐλεύσεται ἐπὶ σὲ, οἱονεὶ, ἔσται λόγος σου ποικίλος καὶ καλός. Στίχ. κεʹ. Ἔσται οὖν σοι ὁ Παντοκράτωρ βοηθὸς ἀπὸ ἐχθρῶν. Ἐὰν ὑποτάξῃς ἑαυτὸν, ἐὰν ἐξομολογήσῃ. 17.88 Στίχ. κεʹ. Καθαρὸν δὲ ἀποδώσει σε ὥσπερ ἀργύ ριον πεπυρωμένον. Ὑγιὲς δόγμα ...... πεπυρωμένον, ὁ Θεός. Στίχ. κ ʹ. Εἶτα παῤῥησιασθήσῃ ἐνώπιον Κυρίου. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. Ἐὰν ταπεινώσῃς σαυτὸν, ὑπομένῃς τὰ συμβεβηκότα, παῤῥησιασθήσῃ ἐνώπιον Κυρίου, παῤῥησίαν ἕξεις, ὡς ἀποθέμενος τὰ ἁμαρτήματα. Στίχ. κηʹ. Ἐπὶ τῶν ὁδῶν σου ἔσται φῶς. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. Ἐὰν τηρήσῃς νουθεσίαν ἀπ' ἐμοῦ, καὶ ἐπιστρέψῃς καὶ ἐξομολογήσῃ. Ταῦτα μὲν οὖν πρὸς Ἰὼβ ἐλέγετο· οὐ δικαίως δὲ ἐλέγετο· οὐ γὰρ ἥμαρτε. Πρὸς ἡμᾶς δὲ ἐὰν λέγηται, δικαίως λέγεται. Στίχ. κηʹ. Ἀποκαταστήσῃ δέ σοι δίαιταν δικαιοσύνης. Καὶ ἁπλῶς εἰπεῖν· Ἅπασάν σοι, φησὶ, τὴν ἁρμό ζουσαν δικαίῳ πράξει διαμονὴν, ὥστε σε λαμπρὰς καὶ ἐπιδόξους ἔχειν τὰς πράξεις. ΚΕΦ. ΚΓʹ. Στίχ. βʹ. Ἡ χεὶρ αὐτοῦ βαρεῖα γέγονεν ἐπ' ἐμῷ στεναγμῷ. Εἰ δὲ ἐνῆν, φησὶ, παραυτὰ τῶν τιμωριῶν τὴν ψῆφον φέρεσθαι, ἦν εὑρεῖν αὐτόν. Εἴθε ἐνῆν δικάσασθαι, φησὶ, καὶ ἐντυχεῖν αὐτοῦ, καὶ μαθεῖν, τίνα ἦν ἃ ἤμελλέ μοι πρὸς ταῦτα ἐρεῖν, ἃ ἤμελλον λέγειν. Ὁρᾷς πῶς ἐπέτυχεν ὅπερ ηὔχετο; Τοῦτο γὰρ ἔσχατον γέγονεν ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ. Ἤθελον μαθεῖν τί μοι ἤμελλεν ἐρεῖν, καὶ εἰ ἔμελλέ μοι ὁμοίως κο λάζειν. Ταῦτα δὲ εἶπον, οὐχ ὡς καταγινώσκων ἀδι κίαν. ΚΕΦ. Κ∆ʹ. Στίχ. ʹ. Ἡδύνθη αὐτῶν ἄρτος εἰς νεωτέ ρους. Ἡδὺ, φησὶ, τοῖς ἀσεβέσι τὸ τρέφειν νεανίσκους, ἐφ' ᾧ δύνασθαι δι' αὐτῶν τὰς ἐπηρείας ἐργάζε σθαι. ΚΕΦ. ΚΖʹ. Στίχ. βʹ. Ζῇ Κύριος, ὃς οὕτω με ἔκρινε. Ἔλαβεν ἐξουσίαν τοῦ Ἰὼβ ὁ διάβολος, καὶ ἤτασεν αὐτὸν νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας, πρότερον διὰ τῶν ἐκτὸς, ὕστερον δι' αὐτοῦ τοῦ σώματος, μετὰ ταῦτα καὶ διὰ τῶν φίλων. Ὅτε γὰρ αὐτὸ ἐδοκίμασε διὰ τῆς γυναικὸς, καὶ οὐ νενίκηται ὁ Ἰὼβ, τρεῖς φίλους ἤνεγ κεν ὁ διάβολος, οὐκ ἐχθροὺς, οὐκ ἐπίβουλα δόγματα ἔχοντας, ἀλλ' ἀληθείας μὲν λόγους, οὐ καλῶς δὲ, οὐδὲ ἐν καιρῷ προφερομένους. Καὶ ἐβουλεύετο ὁ διά βολος διὰ τῶν φίλων τούτων ποιῆσαι τὸν Ἰὼβ φθέγ ξασθαί τι κατὰ τῆς Προνοίας, ἀσεβῆσαι διὰ τοὺς πόνους, ἐκκακῆσαι διὰ τὰς ἀλγηδόνας. Ἀλλ' ὁ ἀλη θῶς ἀνδρεῖος, ὁ καρτερικὸς, ὅρα τί λέγει μετὰ τοὺς λόγους τῶν τριῶν. Ὅτε ἐτέλεσεν ὁ Ἐλιφὰζ τρεῖς διαλέξεις, ὁ Σωφὰρ δύο διαλέξεις· τούτων γὰρ τετελεσμένων, σιωπησάντων ἐκείνων, ὅρα τί ἀποκρί νεται μετὰ τὸ εἰρημένον ἀπ' αὐτοῦ προοίμιον, οὕτως 17.89 ἀπὸ τῆς Γραφῆς ὠνομασμένον. Τί ἀποκρίνεται; πρόσχωμεν τῇ λέξει. Στίχ. αʹ. Ἔτι δὲ προσθεὶς ὁ Ἰὼβ εἶπε τῷ προ οιμίῳ· Στίχ. βʹ. Ζῇ Κύριος, ὃς οὕτω με κέκρικε, καὶ ὁ Παντοκράτωρ, ὁ παραπικράνας μου ψυ χὴν, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. Οἶδα πόθεν

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Origen of Alexandria, Enarrationes in Job (Greek).

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