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but upon the truth itself, that he was a king. 42, 17e And the friends who came to him: Eliphaz of the sons of Esau, king of the Temanites, Bildad the tyrant of the Shuhites, Zophar the king of the Minaeans 398. The account has again well made mention of the friends, as if to say: the story of Job took place in the time of these illustrious and indisputable persons. For 'by two and three witnesses every word will be established,' says the scripture. This short little work, therefore, has been completed as you commanded, O most God-fearing John and Julian, just as for Ecclesiastes. But do not cease offering to us the unending debt, I mean your prayers and love, being true disciples of the son of love and fulfillers of the commandment that says: owe no one anything, except to love one another, which indeed let us not cease offering both to others and to all our brothers with the well-received prayers of the blessed prophet and combatant and beautifully-crowned and blameless Job by the grace alone of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, with whom to the Father be glory, honor, power, with the Holy Spirit, for ever and ever. Amen.

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ἀλλ' ἐπ' αὐτῆς τῆς ἀληθείας, ὅτι βασιλεὺς ἐτύγχανεν. 42, 17ε οἱ δὲ ἐλθόντες πρὸς αὐτὸν φίλοι· Ἐλιφὰζ τῶν Ἠσαῦ υἱῶν Θαιμανῶν βασιλεύς, Βαλδὰδ ὁ Σαυχαίων τύραννος, Σωφὰρ ὁ Μιναίων 398 βασιλεύς. καλῶς πάλιν τῶν φίλων ἐμνημόνευσεν ὁ λόγος μονονουχὶ λέγων· ἐπὶ τῶν περιφανῶν τούτων καὶ ἀπαραγράπτων προσώπων γέγονε τὰ κατὰ τὸν Ἰώβ. ἐπὶ γὰρ δύο καὶ τριῶν μαρτύρων πᾶν ῥῆμα σταθήσεται, φησὶν ἡ γραφή. τὸ μὲν οὖν πονημάτιον σύντομον, ὡς ἐπετάξατε, τετέλεσται, ὦ Ἰωάννης καὶ Ἰουλιανὲ οἱ θεοσεβέστατοι, ὥσπερ καὶ εἰς τὸν Ἐκκλησιαστήν. ὑμεῖς δὲ τὸ ἀτελεύτητον μὴ παύσησθε ἡμῖν εἰσφέροντες χρέος, τὰς εὐχάς φημι καὶ τὴν ἀγάπην, μαθηταὶ γνήσιοι τοῦ τῆς ἀγάπης υἱοῦ τυγχάνοντες καὶ τῆς λεγούσης ἐντολῆς πληρωταί· μηδενὶ μηδὲν ὀφείλετε, εἰ μὴ τὸ ἀλλήλους ἀγαπᾶν, ὃ δὴ καὶ ἄλλοις καὶ πᾶσιν ἡμῶν τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς εἰσφέροντες μὴ παυσώμεθα εὐπροσδέκτοις εὐχαῖς τοῦ μακαρίου προφήτου καὶ ἀγωνιστοῦ καὶ καλλιστεφάνου καὶ ἀμέμπτου Ἰὼβ μόνῃ χάριτι τοῦ κυρίου καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, μεθ' οὗ τῷ πατρὶ δόξα τιμὴ κράτος σὺν ἁγίῳ πνεύματι εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. ἀμήν.