Gregory the Dialogist

Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. Who are denoted by the title of 'destruction and death,' save the evil spirits, who proved the inventors of 'destruction and of death,' as of their leader himself under the appearance of his minister it is said by John, And his name was Death. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIX ↗

Thomas Aquinas

There are also some who seek the knowledge of the future from the dead, but not even this attains the origin of wisdom, and so he then says, "Ruin and death said: We have heard of her fame with our ears." He rightly attributes the fame of wisdom to death and ruin, because ruin and death imply the end and withdrawing from the goods which attain wisdom. Nevertheless, the three things already discussed can be metaphorically referred to the three kinds of rational creature. …

Commentary on Job ↗