John Trapp on Job 1:11

Verſe 11. But put forth thy hand] Make Job feele the weight of it, as good people uſually do more then others; yet not ad exitium, but ad exercitium, their croſſes are not penal, but probational and medicinal. The ſame holy hand of God that was put forth to protect and bleſſe Job, ſhall bee put forth to afflict him. It muſt needs be therefore done in meaſure, and in mercy. If he ſmite Job, it ſhall be in the branches only, and not at the root, Iſa. 27.8. for there is a bleſſing in it; his hand ſhall not be further put forth to ſmite, then to ſave, Iſai. 59.1. Acts 4.31. Pſalm 144.7. If Satan or his inſtruments over-do, and offer to exceed their commiſſion, he will never endure it, Zech. 1.15. This Satan knew very well, and therefore motioneth that God would put forth his hand and touch him; or, Put forth thy hand. I pray thee; or, Put forth thy hand a little (ſo ſome render it) and touch him; that is, lightly afflict him. Confer Geneſ. 26.11, 19. and Pſalm 105.15.

And touch all that he hath] or touch any thing that he hath; ſo the word Col is uſed, Job 8.12. Prov. 1.17. And it is, as if he ſhould ſay, Lay but ſome light loſſe upon him, and he will ſhew his unſoundneſſe; as if but light weights be hanged on rotten boughs, they will ſoon break, and as if wooden or earthen veſſels be ſet empty to the fire, they will quickly crack.

And he will curſe thee to thy face] Heb. If he do not curſe thee q. d. then I ſhall much marvel, or then ſay, I have no skill in him, if he will not thereupon bluſter and blaſpheme thee, and that openly, impudently, boldly, to thy very face, avowedly, as [illegible: 1 letter]aligula did, when he dared his Jove to a Duell, with that Hemiſtick in Homer [non-Latin text not transcribed]: as Mahomet the Grand Seigniour greatly grieved with the diſhonour and loſſe he had at Scodra, moſt horribly brake out into blaſphemous words not fit to be related; as that black mouthed Pope with his al deſpito di Dio. Turk. hiſt. fol. 423. Acts & [illegible: 1 letter]on. 14.17. They ſet their mouthes againſt heaven, ſaith the Pſalmiſt, and let fly at God himſelf; they howle upwards with the wolf when hunger-bit; they utter their owne harſh voice, as the Parrot when beaten; and like birds of prey that have been long kept in the dark, are out of meaſure fierce and furious when once they come abroad, ſo are ignorant and graceleſſe perſons; But Job was none ſuch, what ever the divel deemed and averred of him. Pompey when he had loſt the field, might, for want of grace, ſay that there was a miſt overth[illegible: 2 letters]ye of providence. Brutus, when overcome by his enemy Antony, may ſay in his rage, that all things are carried by blind fortune,Dio. by hap-hazard. Atque deos, atque astra vocat crudelia. — Thoſe miſcreants in Malachi may ſay, 'tis but loſt labour to ſerve the Lord, chap. 3.14. But Satan ſuggeſting that Job would do any ſuch thing if croſſed, did (as one ſpeaketh) either lie knowingly, or at leaſt gueſſe ignorantly.