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Job 13:1

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Lo, all this mine eye hath seen, mine ear hath heard, and I have understood every whit. For what was to follow he saw as present in Him, Whom neither things future come to, nor things past go from; but all things are present at once and together before His eyes. And because the very things that were to come he saw were part in works and part in words, it is rightly said, All this mine eye hath seen, mine ear hath heard. But words are without use, if they lack the understanding of them. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

After Job had shown that the excellence of divine power could be known by experience, he concludes, "Behold, my eye has seen all these things and my ear has heard them," as if to say: I know the effects described before which show divine strength and wisdom partly by sight and partly by hearing. …

Commentary on Job ↗