Gregory the Dialogist

For thou saidst, that which is right doth not please thee, or what will it profit thee, if I shall have sinned. If the whole course of the book is attended to, blessed Job is proved to have said none of these things. But haughty men, as we have also said before, are wont to have this peculiarity, that while they go on in violent invective, they also speak falsely in their inveighing, and that, when they cannot justly blame the things which exist, they reprehend, in their falsehood, those which do not exist.

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Eliud distinctly says that Job had this intention, "For you said: Good does not please you, (or in another text, 'what is right') or what does it profit you if I sin?" These two sayings are never found in what Job has said, but the first of them, that good does not please God, he seems to find in what Job had said in Chapter Ten, "If I am wicked, woe is me! And if I am just, I will not raise my head." (v. …

Commentary on Job ↗