Gregory the Dialogist

My Father, let Job be tried even to the end. Lo! how he lifts up even in words of cursing, that which he had before conceived of the swellings of arrogance. But he would perhaps wish for the force of a merciful probation, if he had believed that he had stood firm in probation. In order then that the malice of his cruelty may openly appear, he prays, that he may still be tried by scourges, who he complains had already fallen during his scourges. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Since Job did not recognize those defects in himself, Eliud turns his words to God, requesting that Job be tried to recognize his defects, and so he says, "My Father," O God whom I think of like a father because of the reverence which I have for you and defend your justice in all things, "Let Job be tried," let his defect be shown to him through scourges, "even to the end," until death. …

Commentary on Job ↗