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Job 41:17

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

They will adhere one to another, and holding each other they will not be separated. 55. For they who might be corrected, if divided, persevere, when united, in the obstinacy of their iniquities: and are day by day the more easily separable from the knowledge of righteousness, the more they are not mutually separated from each other by any reproach. For as it is wont to be injurious if unity be wanting to the good, so is it fatal if it be not wanting to the wicked. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXXIII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Therefore, to show the obstinacy of their consensus to evil he says, "One will adhere to another," by mutual favor and consent, "they hold themselves together and cannot be separated in any way," because of their obstinant consent in evil, like the scales of Leviathan cannot be separated from each other by human power.

Commentary on Job ↗