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Job 34:22

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Gregory the Dialogist

There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where they who work iniquity may be hid. What did he intend to designate by darkness but ignorance, and what by the shadow of death, except oblivion? For it is said of the ignorance of certain persons, Having their mind obscured with darkness. [Eph. 4, 13] And it is written again of the oblivion which comes on us at death, In that day all their thoughts shall perish. [Ps. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXV ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Someone could believe that since God is light and the wicked are in darkness that they are hidden from God, but he excludes this saying, "There is no darkness," of ignorance, "nor shadow of death," which refers to the obscurity of fault leading to death, "where those who do evil can hide" as if to say: Just as they did not want to know God so God does not want to know them. Yet it is said as a reproof that they do not know.

Commentary on Job ↗