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Job 38:40

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

When they couch in their dens, and lie in wait in their caves. 26. For when the holy Apostles did not at all rise up against the limbs of the devil in the voice of bold preaching, and, not being yet strengthened after the Lord's Passion with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, did not preach their Redeemer with firm authority, they were still lying in wait, as it were, in dens against their adversaries. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXX ↗

Thomas Aquinas

This does not seem very difficult when they range through many different places, but when they stay in the same place, it is difficult either from necessity of feeding the cubs which he discusses saying, "when they lie in their dens," or because they are waiting in ambush for some other animals, "and lie in wait in the hollows," to capture animals.

Commentary on Job ↗