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Job 15:32

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Ver. 32. Before his days are fulfilled he shall perish, and his hands shall wither. The days foreordained to each individual by the Divine Prescience can neither be increased nor lessened, except it happen that they be so foreknown as either to be longer if they be accompanied with the most perfect works, or shorter with the most wicked, just as Hezekiah obtained increase of days by the bestowing of tears, and as it is written concerning the wicked, Death meets the undisciplined. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

He posits as a fourth bitter thing the shortness of his life. So he then says, "He will perish before his days are complete," since he will die before his time may be completed, "and his hands will dry up," for his sons and his relations will fail.

Commentary on Job ↗