Thomas Aquinas, on Job 21:4

“Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?”

“Lest his words will be necessarily condemned, he shows that he is about to speak the great matters of divine judgment and not human judgments. Thus he says, "Is my debate against a man so that I should not be sad with merit?", as if to say: If the intention of my argument was to question whether a man justly or unjustly afflicted me, in whatever way this happened, I would lack sadness with reason. But my intention is to inquire how this has happened by the just judgment of God.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.