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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
But ye are set up against me. HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION But perhaps we shall consider these words more thoroughly, if we point out how they apply to the friends of blessed Job personally in a special sense. For they, when they saw the righteous man smitten, ought to have turned back into their own deepest interior, and not to have persecuted blessed Job with words of upbraiding, but to have bewailed their own case; seeing that, if he was so stricken, who served as he did, with what vengeance did they deserve to be smitten, who had …
Thomas Aquinas
So he then says, "But you raise yourselves up against me," showing your excellence, "and you blame me for my disgraces," i.e., which only concern me and do not burden others.
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