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Job 9:10

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. For then we more thoroughly compass the deeds of Divine Might, when we acknowledge that we can never compass them; we then speak with greater eloquence, when we are silent on these, being struck dumb with astonishment. Since for the describing of God's works our insufficiency finds in itself how it may put forth its tongue sufficiently, that what it cannot suitably understand, it may suitably extol by being dumb. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book IX ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Lest someone should believe that divine wisdom has manifested itself only in the things just explained, he shows next that God made many other similar things which cannot be numbered by us saying, "He makes great things," in which the wisdom of God appears praiseworthy from the uniformity of their great size. …

Commentary on Job ↗