Gregory the Dialogist

Or shall it please Him, from Whom nothing can be concealed? Or like as a man will He be deceived by your deceits. Heretics shew God deceit in that they fabricate such things as cannot be pleasing to the very Being, in Whose behalf they say them. And whilst they set themselves as if to defend, they only offend Him, in that they are brought to the ground in fighting against Him, Whom they appear by preaching to be serving. Hence it is said by the Psalmist, That Thou mightest still the enemy and the defender. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Sometimes one person in fraudulently defending another's cause pleases him despite the fact that he is a just man. This can happen in two ways: in one way because he is ignorant that his cause is unjust, and so he is pleased that he is defended by someone, and this he excludes from God saying, "Or will it please him (God)," that you strive to judge unjustly in his behalf, he cannot be ignorant of the case and so he says, "from whom nothing can be concealed?" This can happen in another way when the man whose case is defended by fraud …

Commentary on Job ↗