Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 17:4

4. For thou hast hid their heart from Understanding : therefore shalt thou not exalt them .

Thou hast blinded the minds of my Friends that they cannot see those truths which are most plain and evident to all men of sense and experience: Therefore I desire a more wise and able Judge.

i. e. Thou wiltst not give them the Victory over me in this contest, but wiltst give sentence for me, and disparage them, and make them ashamed of their confidence in affirming falshoods of thee, and punish them severely for this miscarriage. It is an usual figure, whereby much more is understood than is expressed.