Gregory the Dialogist

Ver. 4. Thou hast removed their heart far from discipline. For if they had been acquainted with the keeping of discipline, nor ever despised the precepts of our Redeemer, the mere mortal condition of their flesh by itself would have excited them to the love of the life immortal; for this very thing, even our being subject to corruption in this life, is of the scourge of discipline. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

The prattling friends of Job did not understand this spiritual consolation of Job, and so he then says, "You have made their hearts far from learning," from your spiritual teaching through which you teach one to hope for spiritual goods and to hold temporal goods in contempt. Since they only place their hope in things weak and time bound, they cannot arrive at spiritual height and be placed near to God. He therefore express this saying, "yet they will not be lifted up."

Commentary on Job ↗