Acts And Injuries

Οὐδε ὕδωρ διψῶντας ἐπότισας· ἀλλὰ πεινώνων ἐστρέρησας ψωμόν. Εἰς τὸ αὐτό. Οὐκοῦν οὐ μόνον τὸ ἀδικεῖν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ μὴ εὐεργετεῖν ὑπεύθυνον. Ταῦτα πάντα κατηγορήματά εἰσι, καὶ ἀληθῶς ψεκτά. Ἀλλ' οὐκ ἀληθῆ περὶ τοῦ Ἰὼβ οὐδὲ καλῶς ἐλέγετο περὶ αὐτοῦ. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. Τοιαῦτα γίνεται ἐν ταῖς πικραῖς ἀπαιτήσεσιν. Ἐνίοτε αὐτὸν τὸν ψωμὸν ἔχει τις ἕνα· κἂν μὴ ἔχῃ ἄρτον ὁλόκληρον, ἀφαιροῦμεν ἀπ' αὐτοῦ λέγοντες· Ἀλλ' ὀφείλεις. Χήρας δὲ ἐξαπέστειλας κενάς. Προσέχωμεν ἐὰν χήρα ἡμῶν εἰσέλθῃ εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν, μήποτε κενὴν αὐτὴν ἐξαποστείλωμεν. Κατὰ δύναμιν ἕκαστος πρὸς ὃ ἔχει πληρωσάτω τὸν κόλπον τῆς χήρας. Ὀρφανοὺς δὲ ἐκάκωσας. Οὐδένα μὲν δεῖ κακοῦν, ἐξαιρέτως δὲ Χρὴ φείδεσθαι τῶν ὀρφανῶν. Περὶ γὰρ τῶν ἀβοηθήτων ψυχῶν πολεμεῖν ὁ Θεὸς ἐνετείλατο. Μᾶλλον δὲ παρὰ τοὺς ἄλλους ἀνθρώπους, πτωχοὶ, χῆραι, ὀρφανοὶ δέονται βοηθείας. Τοιγαροῦν ἐκύκλωσάν σε παγίδες. Παγίδας λέγει τὰ συμβεβηκότα αὐτῷ, ἐν αἷς ἐμπέπτωκεν, εἰς ἂς καὶ παγιδεύεται αὐτοῦ ἡ ψυχὴ ἀπὸ τῶν συμβεβηκότων αὐτῷ Ὠριγένης, Εἰς Τον Ιὠβ Source: Migne PG 17.81d-84b

You gave no water to the thirsty, and you deprived the hungry of their morsels... 1 Therefore not only does an injury come from acting, but there is fault even in not acting to help. All these accusations are in truth blameable. But they neither tell the truth about Job, nor do they speak well of him. And this touches on the bitterness of exactions, when some man has but one morsel, not even possessing a full loaf, and we take from him, saying, 'Ah, but you are a debtor.' You sent away widows empty... Let us beware, that if a widow comes to our house, we do not send her away with nothing. According to his means, let each man fill the lap of the widow. You distressed orphans... One must not be a trouble to anyone, and it is especially necessary to spare orphans this. For God has commmanded that with help we fight for the souls of the destitute. And before any other man, one should help the poor, and widows, and orphans. Therefore the snares surrounded you... He calls snares the things that have befallen him, into which he has fallen, by which things that have befallen him his soul is ensnared. Origen, On Job, Fragment 1 Job 22.7