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Job 34:5

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

For Job hath said, I am just, and God hath subverted my judgment. For in judging me there is falsehood: and mine arrow is violent without any sin. He complains that Job had spoken these things, [See chap. 27, 2] which the words of the sacred history prove on examination that he had never said. But he, who had sought for a judgment on equal terms, proceeds to promulgate a sentence from a fault of his own invention.

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIV ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Therefore, he proposes the argument of Job saying them, "since you have said, Job: I am a just man." He had said this already, "I will not desert my justification which I have begun to have." (27:6) Further he had shown his justice clearly in many things above in Chapter Thirty One. …

Commentary on Job ↗