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Job 22:15

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Wouldest thou mark the old way, which wicked men have trodden? LITERAL INTERPRETATION As the 'way' of our Redeemer is humility, so the way of the world is pride. And so wicked men tread the way of the world, in that by the desires of this world they walk in self-exaltation.

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

In the words above, Eliphaz seems to have imposed the charge on Job that he did not believe that God had providence in human affairs. Now as a consequence he seems to impose on him the effect of this lack of faith. For those who do not believe that God has care of human affairs usually follow their own will in all things, disdaining the fear of God, and so he says, "Do you want to follow the path of the world?", the conduct of those who believe in nothing but those temporal things which they see, and from this proceed to works of …

Commentary on Job ↗