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Job 42:15

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

But in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job. 45. For the souls of the Elect surpass, by the comeliness of their beauty, all the human race which lives after the fashion of men on the earth: and the more they slight themselves by outward affliction, the more truly do they array themselves within. Hence it is, that it is said by the Psalmist to Holy Church, which is adorned with the beauty of the Elect; the King hath greatly desired thy beauty. [Ps. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXXV ↗

Thomas Aquinas

So the text continues and discusses their beauty, "There was no one found among women as beautiful as the daughters of Job in the whole land." By this we are also given to understand that his sons were preeminent in virtue, for the text continues, "and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers," to indicate the fittingness of the virtue of both.

Commentary on Job ↗