Chapter xv, verses 1, 2. — But Eliphaz the Temanite, answering, said: Will a wise man answer as if speaking into the wind, and fill his stomach with heat? 28. The wicked reckon the words of the good to be, not the judgments of reason, but the goads of fury. — We have already often said that blessed Job holds the type of the holy universal Church, but his friends hold the likeness of heretics, who, as if out of a defense of the Lord, find occasion for foolish speech, and hurl contumelious words against the good. To whom all things that are felt by the faithful displease, as if uttered into the wind. Hence now it is said: Will a wise man answer as if speaking into the wind? Nor do they esteem the words of the good to be the utterances of reason, but the goads of fury.
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Undeetsubditur. Etim- plebitardorestomachumsuum. Quiaeaetiamquaesesciuntcontumeliosedicere, studentsemper, utdictumest, exDominidefensionepalliare. Unde 404 Eliphazsubdit:
Hence too it is added: And fill his stomach with heat. Because even those things which they know they are saying contumeliously, they ever strive, as has been said, to cloak with a defense of the Lord. Hence Eliphaz adds: