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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
But He Himself knoweth the way that I take. And He shall try me like gold which passeth through the fire. LITERAL INTERPRETATION As if he said in plain terms, 'I for mine own part both search myself strictly, and am not able to know myself thoroughly; yet He, Whom I have not power to see, seeth most minutely all the things that I do.' Gold in the furnace is advanced to the brightness of its nature, whilst it loses the dross. …
Thomas Aquinas
Although he is hidden to me in this way, the things which act about me are not hidden from me, and so he continues, "But he knows my way," the whole course of my life. Job seems to say this against what Eliphaz had said before about the person of evil men as if he had attributed this position to Job, "The clouds are his hiding place and he does not see ours." (22:14) Since someone could object that, "If he knows your way, then, he punished you because of your sins," he answers, "and he will prove me as gold which passes through …
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