Job

Therefore in all things we ought to revere His love for mankind and not be vexed, remembering that great and celebrated utterance which the great athlete Job sent forth, when he saw at a single table ten children crushed in a brief moment of time:

"Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I depart thither"—naked not of possessions (for that is a small and common thing), but, as a righteous man, he departs naked of vice and sin and of the formless image that follows those who have lived unjustly;

“Thou didst take clay from the earth and make a rational animal and set it upon the earth” (2);

Now among the commandments given by God to the children of Noah, it is said, that death was expressly declared to be the punishment not only for murder, but for adultery, incest, and robbery, which is confirmed by the words of Job xxxi.

And therefore, if we restore a marriage that has been taken away, without doubt we strive against the will of God, wishing to have again what he was unwilling for us to have.

For then are we delivered from the hands of the devil, when we are not delivered over to him in temptation.

For he was not called away from the regard for God by so many griefs, but stood as an example and testimony to us, in spirit as in flesh, in mind as in body, of patience to be carried through — so that we may give way neither at the losses of worldly things, nor at the losses of our dearest, nor even at the afflictions of the body.