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Job 6:18

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

The paths of their steps are involved. All that is involved is folded back into itself. And there are some who as it were resolve, with all the purpose of their heart, to resist the vicious habits that mislead them, but when the crisis of the temptation comes full upon them, they do not hold out in their purposed resolution. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book VII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

He shows the cause of this when he continues, "The paths they follow are tangled up." What is entangled goes back on itself with a kind of twist and turn, and so the footpaths of those men are entangled who seek nothing in their kinsmen and friends except their own advantage. Because of this they simulate friendship in time of prosperity but they pass by in time of adversity. …

Commentary on Job ↗