Thomas Aquinas, on Job 30:17

“In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.”

“So he says, "At night pains tear my bones," as if to say: My pains so increase at night that they seem to reach piercing through my bones. He shows that the cause of his pain was from the rotting of his sores saying, "and they who consume me," the worms generated from the rotting of the wounds, "do not sleep," since they give no rest to him.”

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