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Job 36:22

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Behold, God is lofty in His strength, and none is like Him among lawgivers. As if he said plainly, He, Who will appear humble in weakness, remains lofty in strength, Paul also witnessing this, who says, For though He was crucified through weakness, yet He liveth by the power of God. [2 Cor. 13, 4] Of Whom it is rightly subjoined, None is like Him among lawgivers. Moses was a lawgiver, Joshua a lawgiver, the Prophets lawgivers also. We can term all lawgivers, who, we know, admonish the people rightly from the Law. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

After Eliud rejected the words of Job in which he had said he was just, he here rejects his words because he believed he had spoken against the justice of divine judgment. So he first proposes the sublimity of divine power when he says, "Behold God preeminent in his power," for he has a higher power than everything else. It is against reason that someone who wields less power should convict a greater authority of injustice. …

Commentary on Job ↗