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Job 19:15

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. The inmates of God's house were the Priests, whose race once set apart in the service of God, was henceforth by office continued in that state. But the 'maids' are not improperly taken for the souls of the Levites, servants to the hidden parts of the tabernacle as it were by a more familiar service to the interior of the bedchamber. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIV ↗

Thomas Aquinas

After these he goes on to enumerate the household servants when he says, "The tenants of my house," who used to serve me, "and maids considered me as a stranger," not caring about my afflictions; "and I have been like a foreigner in their eyes," for they obviously despise me.

Commentary on Job ↗