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Job 30:28

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

I went mourning: without rage rising up, I cried out in the crowd. I see that it is a thing to be carefully noted historically considered, that the holy man who a little before said, Thou hast lifted me up, added below, I went mourning. For by a wonderful arrangement at one and the same time there is wont to meet together in the courses of good men, at once without, the honour of the highest pitch, and within, the mourning of afflicted abasement. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XX ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Then, as to exterior evils he says, "I went along grieving," for when I walked among men I pretended sadness after misery. But although sadness is the cause of anger, there was still no anger in me, and so he then says, "Standing up without fury, I cried in the crowd," explaining my miseries.

Commentary on Job ↗