Job 30:8

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men; and in the earth not appearing at all. That is to say, the children of those, who were the masters of errors. So they are called 'children,' not as engendered by the seed, but by the imitating of those, who by teaching what is wrong were 'fools' in respect of ignorance, and by living wicked lives 'base men' in respect of conduct. Who are not allied to our Redeemer by any relationship of wisdom, or by any of life. Concerning which it is said by the voice of Solomon in commendation of Holy Church, Her husband is noble in the gates. So these, because they followed the froward examples of those going astray, were recorded as being 'the children of fools and of base men.' Now it is rightly subjoined, and on the earth not appearing at all. Because whilst they aim to appear something here, surely from the land of the living they are made outcasts. But this which we have delivered in a type of heretics, nothing is at all in the way, if we understand it as well of persons froward and carnal, though set in the right faith. For neither does Holy Church account those only adversaries to her, who, as placed without, dissent from her faith, but those also who by living amiss inwardly stifle her life.

"Constantly prey to hunger and misery," tormented by a crowd of insatiable desires. "Yesterday they were fleeing into the wilderness," constantly trying to avoid the Law which they did not want to hear with righteousness. "Fleeing yesterday in the desert," because they had received it in the desert. If today applies to the New Testament, yesterday applies to the Old. It is from the New that it is said: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts (4); And elsewhere: "You are my son, I have beget you today (5). " 4. "They gnawed the bark of trees. They had for food the figures of the Law who veiled the realities. "The root of the plants was their food; The mysteries which they were to celebrate in a carnal way, which did not seem to rise from the earth: but a righteous mind could draw from it the fruits of salvation, and rise from the earth to true freedom, but they would not have succeeded. "Without honor, without consideration, and deprived of all good. The honor of the first rank was lost to them, with the hopes of the promise. By their own fault they have lost the temporal blessings, and the kingdom of heaven is not theirs. "Pressed by famine, they devoured the root of the trees. What is said of the root of the plants for the wheat, it is necessary to apply it to the root of the trees for the wine and the oil. Because these products are the spiritual goods of the Church. Their roots planted in the earth were the sacred rites that the Jews were to celebrate externally, such as the Sabbath, circumcision, sacrifices and all other acts destined to nourish piety. 5. "The thieves have risen against me. Those who by fraud and falsehood unjustly obtain the honors reserved for the just: 6. "Their dwellings were the dens of the rocks. They wanted to justify their guilty desires by the obscure passages of the Holy Books. 7. "They were screaming among the trees. Their sins were out in the open, despite their efforts to hide them under the darkness of the Scriptures, as under the foliage of the forests. So it is written, "The cries of the inhabitants of Sodom have gone up to me." In many places Scripture speaks of the clamor of sin, to signify its publicity. In this sense, the word is the guilty thought conceived in the depths of the heart, the cry is the external action. "They took shelter under the stalks in the earth:" Those who do the Fa in a carnal…