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What the Fathers say

Job 24:3

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. Whom do we understand by the fatherless in this place, but the Elect of God, who are set in tenderness of mind, are nourished with the efficacious grace of faith, and do not yet see the face of their Father, Who has already died in their behalf. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

He enlarges their fault from the condition of the persons on whom they inflict those injuries. People are usually compassionate to orphans because of their weakness of age and lack of parents. Against this he says, "They have stolen the ass of the orphans," because they make it wander off so that they might steal it with no compassion for the orphans. …

Commentary on Job ↗