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Job 24:13

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

They are rebellious against the light. They know not the ways thereof, nor have returned by the paths thereof. LITERAL INTERPRETATION Very often wicked people at once know the right things that they ought to follow, and yet neglect to follow what they know; and so they are 'rebellious against the light,' in that following their desires, they contemn the good that they know. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

He now shows the reason why God does not suffer this to go unpunished from the fact that they did not sin from ignorance, but from malice. As a result of this malice they hate wisdom, because it censures their sins, and so he says, "These were those who rebelled against the light," in doing intentionally what is against what the light of reason teaches them. However, as "wisdom takes possession of those who desire her," (Wis. 6:14) so she flees from those who resist her, and so he says, "they did not know her ways," i.e. …

Commentary on Job ↗