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Job 6:20

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

They are confounded, because I have hoped. But blessed Job, after he had brought in the shortness of the present life in terms of contempt, therefore in the voice of all the Elect rises up justly against the wicked, subjoining, They are confounded, because I have hoped. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book VII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

You will not see this because, "They are embarrassed," to come to me; "because I hoped for them" i.e. because there was a time when I should have hoped for help from them. This is because men who do not want to help someone are ashamed to visit them if they think they will ask them for help reasonably. "They came," some of them, "to me and they were covered with shame," because they did not give me help when they recognized that they should have.

Commentary on Job ↗