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Job 22:18

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Yet He has filled their houses with good things. The Lord 'filleth the houses of the wicked with good things,' in that even to the unthankful He refuses not His gifts, that either they may blush at the loving-kindness of their Creator and be brought back to goodness, or altogether despising to return thereto, may from the same cause be there worse punished, that here they rendered an evil return for God's more bounteous good, so that severer woes should there chastise those whose wickedness here not even gifts overcame. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

To aggravate their fault he then speaks about their ingratitude saying, "though he filled their houses with good things," with temporal things which are given by God to men. To disprove their assertion he says, "let the opinion of these men be far from me."

Commentary on Job ↗