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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
My words are from my simple heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence. To say that speech is simple, is a praise of great weight. But because the haughty possess it not, they assert the more anxiously that they possess it, in order that they may be heard with less apprehension. And they declare that they are going to speak with pure intention, because they are afraid of their wicked duplicity being discovered. …
Thomas Aquinas
Since Job in what has gone before has accused his friends of afflicting him and confounding him with words, (19:2) Eliud shows this is not true with him saying, "My words are in a simple heart," as if to say: I do not speak to falsely condemn or to ridicule, but to show the truth with a simple heart. Since Job had accused the other three men of being, "fabricators of a lie and worshippers of false dogmas," (13:4) he excludes this from himself saying, "and my lips will speak a pure opinion," without the mixture of any falsity or error.
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