Gregory the Dialogist

At the right hand of the East my calamities on the spot arose. They overturned my feet, and oppressed with their footpaths as with waves. For 'calamities' would 'rise to the left,' if at the hand of any persons set without the pale of Religion, and openly denying Christ, she met with the adverse dealings of persecution. But when she undergoes from persons seemingly believers the trial of tormentings, it is as if calamities arose to her at the right hand, because they who are enlisted under Christ's name, assail Christ's name in her. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XX ↗

Thomas Aquinas

He next shows that such adversities have been sent to him by God from the fact that they came to him beyond the usual manner of human adversities. He first demonstrates this from the place where the adversities came. For raids usually arise especially in those countries from the North, where barbarous nations and men who were very ferocious and warlike lived, as we read in Jeremiah, "all evil spreads from the north." (1:14) But those who assaulted blessed Job came from the South where men who are less warlike and ferocious usually …

Commentary on Job ↗