Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 12:3

3. But I have an understanding as well as ye, I am not inferiour to you : yea, who knoweth not such things as these ?

Heb. an heart; which is oft put for the understanding; as Iob 34. 34 Ier 5. 21. Acts. 8. 22. i. e. God hath given me also the knowledge and ability to judge of these matters.

In these things; which he speaketh, no[illegible: 1+ letters] in a way of vain-glorious boasting, but for the just and [illegible: 1 word] vindication, both of himself and of that cause of God, which for the matter and substance of i[illegible: 1+ letters] he maintained as God himself attests, Iob 42. 7

The truth is, neither you nor I have any re[illegible: 1+ letters]son to be puffed up with our knowledge of these thing[illegible: 1+ letters]: For the most foolish and barbarous Nations know that God is Infinit[illegible: 1+ letters] in Wisdom, and Power, and Justice. But this is not the question between you and me.

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