Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 32:13

13. Lest ye should say , We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man .

It is a defective speech, and may be thus supplied; Thus it was, or God thus left you to your own weakness and mistakes, and impertinent discourses, lest ye should say. &c. i. e. lest you should ascribe the conquering or silencing of Iob to your own wisdom, age, and experience: Or lest you should [illegible: 1+ letters]astingly [illegible: 1 word] ▪ We have discovered and said all that can or n[illegible: 1+ letters]d [illegible: 1+ letters]e said in the Cause, the sum and substance of the thing, that which may fully and finally end the Controversie, which is contained in the f[illegible: 1+ letters] lowing words.

These are alledged by E[illegible: 1+ letters]ihu in the person of [illegible: 1 word] three Friends, or as their words. The sense is, The [illegible: 1 word] judgments which are upon Iob, have not been brought upon him by man solely and originally, for then there might have been some ground for Iob's complaints, there might have been injustice or cruelty in them, but immediately by the hand of God, of that God, who being Omniscient, and just, and true, and mercifull, would never have dealt thus hardly with Iob, if he were not an Hypocrite and guilty of some very gr[illegible: 1+ letters]ss, though secret [illegible: 1 word]: which is the ground-work of our discourses. But, [illegible: 1+ letters]aith El[illegible: 1+ letters], this Argument doth not satisfie me, and therefore bear with me if I seek for better.