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What the Fathers say

Job 13:8

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Will ye take His person? will ye strive to judge for God? For when foolish men behold the doings of the wise, they all seem to them to be worthy of blame; who, forgetting their own emptiness and deficiency, pass judgment on the concerns of others the more eagerly, in proportion as they are more deeply ignorant of their own. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

They could respond, however, that they did not say anything deceitfully against Job, but only what they thought. Job therefore shows that if this were true, they would fall into another vice although they had been excused from deceit, namely, the respect of persons which excludes the justice of a judge. Respect of persons consists in someone condemning or denying the justice of another which is apparent because of the greatness the other person, although he does not know his justice. …

Commentary on Job ↗