Julian of Eclanum, on Job 21:23

“One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.”

“In order to refute the argument of [his friends], who wanted to refer everything to [their concept] of divine equity, he shows how they are inferior to him in merits and successes, so that it may clearly appear that in the present state of things the form of justice that they think they understand is lame.”

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