Thomas Aquinas, on Job 32:6

“Then Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: I am younger in days, and you are more ancient; therefore hanging down my head, I was afraid to shew you my opinion.”

“The text therefore continues, "and Eliud, the son of Barachiel, the Buzite, answered," to the discourses and arguments of Job. In his anger he first excuses his former silence, both because of his age, "And he said, 'I am younger in years,'" and because of the old age of the others, and so he says, "and you are older." Young men ought to defer in reverence to their elders, and so he says, "on that account I lowered my head," as a sign of reverence and humility, "and I was reluctant to express my opinion to you," so as not to seem presumptuous in hindering the words of wiser men by my discourses.”

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