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Job 33:12

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

This is the thing then in which thou art not justified. I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. Blessed Job had indeed truly said, that he had been scourged without any fault. For he said of himself exactly what the Lord had said of him to the devil, Thou hast moved Me against him to afflict him without cause. But Eliu did not believe, that his fault doing nothing in it, he could be scourged as a matter of grace. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Because this second point excludes the first, he then says, "It is in this then in which you are not justified," as if to say: You cannot say you are just because the very fact that you impute injustice to God shows your injustice. Eliud has already proposed those things which he intended to dispute with Job. …

Commentary on Job ↗