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Job 3:8

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION. Let them curse it that curse the day, that are ready to rouse up Leviathan. In the old translation it is not so written, but, Let him curse it that hath cursed the day, even him who shall take the great whale. By which words it is clearly shewn, that the destruction of Antichrist, to be at the end of the world, is foreseen by the holy man. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book IV ↗

Thomas Aquinas

From this he only intends to show that his conception was not something great nor ordered to something good, but rather to the evil of adversity which he was feeling. So he says, "Let those curse it who curse the day, those who are capable of rousing up Leviathan." According to the literal sense, this can be understood in two ways. …

Commentary on Job ↗