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Job 4:2

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Thomas Aquinas

First, he therefore accuses Job of impatience and begins to speak to him as one does to a man subject to the sin of impatience who immediately reacts angrily to the words spoken to him. So he says, "If one ventures a word with you, you will perhaps be offended." Here he adequately assesses the usual temperament of an impatient and angry man, who cannot suffer to hear someone finish his argument, but is immediately provoked to answer him when he has only just begun to speak. …

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