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Job 6:17

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

What time they be dissipated they shall perish. For all persons that are ruled by concern for the present life, are brought to nought by the loss of it, and then they are undone without, who have for long been undone within by disregarding the things of eternity. Concerning whom it is rightly added, When they have become hot, they shall be dissolved from their place. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book VII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

"And they will vanish from their place as though dried up." He uses the metaphor of snow, which he has already mentioned, for it does not immediately melt with the first heat when it is very hard and frozen, but when not yet frozen, it melts immediately when touched by the rays of the sun and becomes slush. He shows this saying, "and they will vanish from their place, as though they were dried up," i.e., immediately their whole prosperity will vanish at the first assault of adversity as the snow does at the first heat.

Commentary on Job ↗