"A teacher and guide of humankind is Job, whose significance by no means consists in what he said but in what he did. He did indeed leave a statement that by its brevity and beauty has become a proverb preserved from generation to generation, and no one has presumptuously added anything to it or taken anything from it; but the statement itself is not the guide, and Job’s significance consists not in his having said it but in his having acted upon it."
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Søren Kierkegaard, in Four Upbuilding Discourses (1843), "The Lord Gave, and the Lord Took Away; Blessed Be the Name of the Lord", p. 109
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