John Trapp on Job 1:22

Verſe 22. In all this Job ſinned not] The Greek and Latine verſions adde here, with his lips: but I could rather be of Mercers judgement, who referreth the former part of this verſe to the mind, and the later to the mouth: ſhewing that Job neither thought in his heart, nor uttered with his mouth any thing unmeet and unworthy of God; inſomuch, that both within and without, he carried away the victory and conqueſt over Satan,B[illegible: 1 letter]z[illegible: 1 letter]. and ſo better deſerved to be Sainted then our Henry the ſixth, of whom the Chronicler writeth thus. This King in both eſtates ſo demeaned himſelfe, that he modeſtly carried the one, and moderately under-went the other: yea, ſuch was his deportment, that the inconſtancy of his ſtate could not alter the conſtancy of his minde; inſomuch, that one of his ſucceſſours,Dan. hiſt. contin. by Truſſel. King Henry the ſeventh, laboured for that onely vertue, to have him canonized for a Saint; and had obtained to have done it, had not the charges thereof ſo farre exceeded mediocrity, as to cauſe him to leave it undone. God himſelf hath here canonized, crowned and chronicled holy Job, for his many good properties before, and here for his humility and patience: The triall of his faith being much more precious then that of gold that periſheth, though it be tried with fire, is found to praiſe and honour and glory, 1 Pet. 1.7. It was a ſaying of Philoſtratus, that one Jupiter ſet out by Homer the Poet, was worth ten ſet out by Phydias the carver; becauſe the former flew abroad through all the world; whereas the other never ſtirred from his pediſtal at Athens: ſo one Job thus renowned by Gods owne pen, is farre beyond all that have been memorized in humane hiſtories for their aequanimity and conſtancy. In all this that Job ſuffered, acted, and uttered, he ſinned not, ſcil. ſinningly: he was not transformed into ſins image; he ſinned not by curſing God, as Satan hoped, and would have had it: or charged God fooliſhly, or with folly; with any thing inſolent, inſulſe, unſavory; he charged him not in the leaſt, to have dealt unwiſely or unworthily with him; and this is here mentioned, as Grace,Jam. 1.4. almoſt to a miracle, as Patience having her perfect work, and proving Job to be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.