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Job 34:9

9 For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Commentaries
Gregory the Dialogiston Job 34:9AD 604
For he hath said, A man will not please God, even though he run with Him.

But that he never said so, every one acknowledges who reads the words of blessed Job. But yet what wonder, that he who speaks for the sole purpose of proudly setting himself off, invents something to find fault with in another person? For how can he adhere to 'truth in his words of reproof, whom pride of mind within removes far away from the same truth? It follows,

Therefore hearken unto me, Ye men of understanding.

Behold again that, puffed up by pride and haughtiness, he seeks for those only who are able to follow him, by understanding him properly...
Thomas Aquinason Job 34:9AD 1274
He show why he asserts that he consents with them saying, "For he said: A man will not please God even if he has run with him," even if he had follows him in the way of justice. Job did not say this, but Eliud takes his words in a sense they were never intended to impute this charge to him. For Job had said, "My feet followed his steps," (23:11) and later, "You have changed into someone cruel in my opinion and you persecute me with a heavy hand." (30:21) From these words he concluded that Job thought that he was displeasing to God, even though he had followed him, but Job referred these words to exterior persecution, not to interior reprobation.