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Job 30:2

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

The power of whose hands was nothing to me, and of life itself they were accounted unworthy. 'Power in the hand' is greatness in practising. But 'the power of the hands' of Heretics is reckoned 'as nothing to' Holy Church, because she sees that, the true faith being lost, whatsoever they do it is of no merit. For the charity of God and our neighbour they forsake, who both imagine what is false concerning God, and by wrangling are separated from their neighbours. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XX ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Third, as to their meanness of power. So he says, "whose strength of hands," either the detractors or even their fathers, "held nothing," for I regarded all their power as worth nothing. This is contrary to what he said already, "generals governed their tongues." (29:10) Fourth, as to their lack of honor, and so he says, "and they were not accounted worthy of life itself," because of their numerous grave sins. This is the contrary to the parallel statement he made, "The ear which heard, blessed me." (29:11)

Commentary on Job ↗