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Job 12:9

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? As if he said in plain terms; 'Whether you ask the dull of understanding, or persons full of the loftiest subjects, or those devoted to earthly ways, or the men busied with investigations that belong to this world, all of them acknowledge God to be the Creator of all things, and with one consent agree about His Power, though they do not with one consent live in submission to it. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

He shows that all these things answer when asked, "Who does not know that the hand of the Lord made all these things?" So, then, all things confess that they have been made by God.

Commentary on Job ↗