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Job 22:21

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Be at one then with Him, and be at peace; thereby thou shalt have the best fruits. Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. There is the sin of pride in teaching one better than one's self, which heretics are often guilty of, who touching things which they have wrong notions of, take upon them as if to instruct Catholics. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Since he had said (v.17) that this kind of ruin happens to the wicked because they struggled against God, so that Job is able to avoid a similar overturning when he adds, "Go along with him and be at peace," as if to say: You were agitated because you wanted to argue against him. "And in this," through that peace by which you will be reconciled with him, "you will bear the best fruit," as if to say: You will attain whatever can be best as the fruit of this peace.

Commentary on Job ↗