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Verse 4. — 'Is my dispute against man, that I should not deservedly be grieved?' 42. Job, made humbler by his scourges, feared only that he had displeased God. — Everyone who, pleasing God, displeases men, has no cause for sadness. But whoever either, pleasing men, displeases God, or believes that he displeases both God and men at once — if sadness does not affect him, he is a stranger to the virtue of wisdom. Now blessed Job believed that amid his scourges he had displeased God, and therefore recalled his mind to sadness, because he was not to be despised whom he dreaded he had displeased. But if he were disputing against man concerning the merits of his life, he ought by no means to have been grieved;
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but because through his present scourges he had become doubtful concerning his past life, he rightly sought sadness in his scourge. Whence also he adds: