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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
If I speak of strength, lo, He is strong; if of equity in judgment, none dareth bear witness for me. For He tries the counts of our lives, Who does not make them out by the testimony of another; in that He, Who is one day revealed as a strict inflicter of punishment, Himself was for long the silent witness of the sin. For it is on this account that the Prophet says, I am judge and witness. Hence he saith again, I have long time holden My peace; I have been still, and refrained Myself; now will I cry like a travailing woman. …
Thomas Aquinas
Note that in the text, "If I appealed to him and he hears my call, etc." (v.16) he evidently has explained what he had said above in a more metaphorical way, "Should he come near me, I will not see." (v.11) For one should observe nearly always in the statements of Job that things said in metaphor are clarified in subsequent texts. …
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