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Job 5:10

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

MYSTICAL INTERPRETATION. Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and sendeth waters upon all things. Forasmuch as we believe that the friends of blessed Job were enlightened by their intercourse with him, we must needs handle these words of Eliphaz in a mystical manner. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book VI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Consequently he shows that the course of created things is governed by divine providence. First in natural things which seems to have been made for the use of man and the other animals, although the natural order of the elements seems to demand another thing. For if someone should consider heaviness and lightness in the elements, clearly earth naturally lies beneath water, water to air and air to fire. …

Commentary on Job ↗