Job/people

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“Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.”
—Bible: Hebrew Job 38:11.

God speaking to Job of his laying of his “foundations of the earth.”

“Almost everybody in the neighborhood had “troubles,” frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had “complications.” To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years with “troubles,” but they almost always succumbed to “complications.””
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)