Job 9:1 (NIV): What the Church Fathers Said

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Job 9:1

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Thomas Aquinas

Blessed Job in his answer above in which he had responded to Eliphaz's words, seemed to have overlooked one argument which Eliphaz had proposed about the justice of God when he said, "Will man ever be justified in comparison with God?" (4:17) He rather seemed to have spoken almost contentiously with God when he said, "Am I the Sea or a whale, etc." (7:12) and "How long will you not spare me, etc." (7:19) So Bildad of Shuah replied to the argument of Blessed Job taking his starting point from a defense of divine justice and said, "Can …

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