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Job 14:5

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Ver. 5. The days of man are short, the number of his months is with Thee. For he sees that that as it were is not with us, which runs by with such great rapidity, but seeing that even things passing away stand with Almighty God, he declares that 'the number of our months is with Him.' Or, indeed, by the 'days,' the shortness of time is denoted, but by the 'months' the spaces of the days are multiplied. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Job had wondered about the divine esteem for men, since man is still of such a frail and unhappy condition, considered in the state of the present life. But this wonder would cease if one considers that after this life there is another life reserved for man in which he remains in eternity, and so from here on he tries to show this. …

Commentary on Job ↗