Gregory the Dialogist

Is not their erecting cut down, and the remnant of them the fire hath consumed? For here the wicked are erected, in that they are lifted up in bad deeds. For they both do wickedly, and yet for their wicked deeds they are not stricken. They sin and thrive, they add to their sins, and multiply earthly good. But 'their erecting is cut down' then, when they are either dragged from the present life to destruction, or from the sight of the Eternal Judge to the eternal burning of hell. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

To answer any doubts that the river has undermined the foundation of evil men, he proposes this as something clear in question form, "Has not their insolence been beaten down?" For they seemed from earthly prosperity, or also from their own pride to grow high like a tree. But as the growth of a tree is suddenly interrupted by cutting it down, so also their being raised up suddenly ceases through the removal of these things. Sometimes when a tree is cut it does not grow higher, but still remains the same in length. …

Commentary on Job ↗