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Job 3:26

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Gregory the Dialogist

Did I not dissemble it? Did I not hold my peace? Did I not rest quiet? Yet wrath came upon me. Though in every situation of life, we sin in thought, word, and deed, the mind is then hurried along in all these three ways with the greater freedom from control, when it is lifted up with this world's good fortune. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book V ↗

Thomas Aquinas

A man often suffers unhappiness and bitterness through his own fault. But this is not the case here, for Job says, "Have I not dissembled?" Understand here that someone sins and so merits punishment from God in two ways. In one way when from injuries inflicted on him, he is provoked to revenge beyond what is his due, as Psalm 7 says, "If I repaid evil things to those requiting me, may I perish deservedly destitute at the hands of my enemies." (v. …

Commentary on Job ↗