Thomas Aquinas, on Job 34:26

“He hath struck them, as being wicked, in open sight.”

“He shows why they are destroyed in the night from the fact that although they could see what they must do, they despised it, and therefore, it is just that they are not given the ability of foreseeing the evils threatening them to provide against them. He expresses this saying, "As evil men," who reject the knowledge of piety, "he has stricken them," who live "in the place of those who see," which is the state in which they can see, both by natural reason and by sacred doctrine, what must be done and what must be avoided.”

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