Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 42:2

2. I know that thou canst do every thing , and that no thought can be withholden from thee .

Not onely by power, but also by (for that he always thought) right; about which he had in some sort doubted and disputed. It is a Maxim in Law, that a Man can onely do that which he hath a right to do.

Whatsoever it pleaseth thee to do with thy Creatures.

He speaks either, 1. Of Iob's thoughts. Thou knowest me and all my sinful and unworthy thoughts of thy providential dealings with me, though I was not able to see the evil of them. Or 2. Of God's thoughts. Whatsoever thou thinkest or purposest to do, thou canst or mayest do it; and neither I nor any of thy Creatures can either restrain thee from it, or condemn thee for it, as I have boldly and wickedly presumed to do. So this last Clause of the Verse explains the former.

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