Gregory the Dialogist

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself uppermost in the gate. It was the custom with those of old that the elders should sit at the gate to make out by judicial trial the quarrels of persons at strife, in order that the city, in which it was befitting that they should dwell in concord, they should never enter at variance. And hence the Lord saith by the Prophet, Establish judgment in the gate. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Another impediment to mercy is the confidence one has in one's own power. This seems to make a man think he can harm others and especially people beneath him with impunity, and he excludes this from himself saying, "If I have raised my hand against the orphan," to cause him to suffer, "even when they saw me at the gate," the place of judgment, "elevated," as one more powerful.

Commentary on Job ↗