Gregory the Dialogist

MORAL INTERPRETATION. There the wicked cease from disturbance, and there the weary in strength be at rest. We have already said above, that herein, viz. that the hearts of sinners are possessed with a tumult of desires, they are grievously oppressed by a host of goading thoughts, but in this light, which the 'infants conceived' never saw, the wicked are said to 'cease from their disquietude' for this reason, that the coming of the Mediator, which the fathers under the Law had long waited for, the Gentiles found to the peace of their …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book IV ↗

Thomas Aquinas

He shows that he should have chosen this for himself so as not to have been subject to the evils of this life. So he says, "There," in the state where those are who after they were conceived did not see the light of day, "the wicked cease from troubling," from the trouble they caused others in afflicting them, cleansed from the evil of fault. "And there," in the state of the dead, "the weary" warriors who are worn out from the struggle, "are at rest," i.e. …

Commentary on Job ↗