Clement of Alexandria

Calmness is a thing which, of all other things, is most to be prized. As an example of this, the word proposes to us the blessed Job. For it is said of him, "What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water?" For truly enviable, and, in my judgment, worthy of all admiration, a man is, if he has attained to such a degree of long-suffering as to be able with ease to grapple with the pain, truly keen, and not easily conquered by everybody, which arises from being wronged.

Nicetas Bishop of Heraclea ↗

Gregory the Dialogist

What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water, who goeth with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men? Behold, in seeking a judgment, he has pronounced a judgment; and after his own allegation, without waiting for any statement of blessed Job, he condemned him as deserving of condemnation from his intercourse with the wicked. For he says, What man is like Job? That we may be sure to understand, No one. And he subjoins, Who drinketh up scorning like water. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIV ↗

Thomas Aquinas

After Eliud had laid this perversity on Job himself, he begins to reprimand him about this saying, "What man is like Job?" as if to say: There is no one like him who seems to be as perverse as he is. For it seemed the greatest perversity when someone laughs at God by disparaging his judgments, and so he says, "who drinks derision," the derision and reproving of divine judgments, "like water." This is drunk easily and for refreshment, as if he imputes to him the crime that what bursts forth as an affront to God, was for him the …

Commentary on Job ↗