“He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?”
"You who tear yourself in your anger—shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?" Bildad suggests that Job's rage is impotent. His anger cannot alter the cosmic order; the earth will not be forsaken for him, nor will rocks be moved. The verse implies that Job's emotional intensity is irrelevant to the order of things.
Church Fathers on Job 18:4
In a former part of this work we have handled the point, that Almighty God, in order to amend the hearts of those under the law, brought forward the life of blessed Job for a testimony, who knew not the law and yet kept it, who observed the precepts of life, which he had not received in writing. This man’s conduct is first extolled by God’s bearing witness to it, and is afterwards suffered to be put to the proof by the devil’s plotting against it, that he might prove by the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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