Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 11:11

11. For he knoweth vain man : he seeth wickedness also , will he not then consider it ?

Though men know but little of God, and therefore are very unfit Judges of all his Counsels and Actions, yet God knows man exactly, and his vanity, or [illegible: 1+ letters]abhood, or folly, or rashness; for all these this word signifies. He knoweth that every man in the World is guilty of much vanity and folly, and therefore seeth sufficient reason for his severity against the best men; such as thou, O Iob, fanciest thy self to be; and if thou wert so, thou hast no reason to wonder at or quarrel with his proceedings: And if thy quarrel be that he shuts thee up, or cuts thee off, when he gathers others under his wing and protection, whom thou thinkest or knowest to be worse than thy self, while thou doest impeach his justice, thou doest but betray thy own vanity and folly: For he knows both whom he chastiseth, and whom he spareth, and why he doth it, though he do not acquaint thee with the reasons of all his actions.

As he knoweth the vanity of all men, so he exactly perceiveth the wickedness of evil men, though it be covered with the Veil of Religion. He seeth thy evil heart which discovers it self by such wicked and scandalous speeches against the justice and goodness of his Providence, which gives him just cause to continue and encrease thy miseries. Though thou art partial and flatterest thy self with a conceit of thy own Integrity, yet he knoweth thy hypocrisie and wickedness.

Shall he only see it as an idle Spectator, and not observe it as a Judge to requite and punish it?

Marginal references: Ps. 10. 11, 14. & 35. 22.