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Job 34:29

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

For when He giveth peace, who is there to condemn? since He hath hidden His face, who is there that can look on Him? Whence also, from his awe at those boundless and unfathomable judgments, he does not care to discuss them with reasoning, but to venerate them with admiration. Let no one then discuss, why the Gentile world lay so long in unbelief, while the Jewish people was yet standing, and why the sin of unbelief overthrew the Jewish people, as the Gentile world rose to belief. [Rom. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXV ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Since Eliphaz had attributed the grief of many men to divine judgment, someone, however, could think that the fact that a great number is destroyed and others prosper was not a result of divine judgment, but a result of some powerful prince who governs or attacks them. …

Commentary on Job ↗