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Job 19:4

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

And be it indeed that I have been ignorant, my ignorance remaineth with myself. Heretics have this about them, that they are swoln by the empty pretensions of their knowledge, and often turn to ridicule the simplicity of those that believe rightly, and account the life of the humble to be of no worth. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIV ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Among other reproaches Baldath seems to have blamed him for ignorance, when he had said, "Understand first and then we will speak." (18:2) The friends certainly should have tolerated this ignorance. He should been excused because of it, but he should not have been reproached with it especially in a time of adversity, and so he then says, "If without doubt I have erred, my ignorance will be with me," as if he should say: Nothing burdens you, but only me, and so it does not befit you to reproach me for ignorance in the midst of …

Commentary on Job ↗