John Trapp on Job 11:5

Verſe 5. But oh that God would ſpeak &c.] For we do but loſe our ſweet words upon thee, ſith thou art ſet, and ſo wedded and wedged to thine own will and way, that thou canſt not be removed and rectified, but by an extraordinary touch from the hand of heaven; O therefore that God would ſpeak and open his lips againſt thee, and for us: for ſo Zophar doubts not but he would do; but if it proved otherwiſe chap. 42. Job was juſtified, and theſe three condemned, becauſe they had not ſpoken of God, (or to God, as in this text) the thing that was right, verſe 7. but had been Satans inſtruments to diſcourage Job[illegible: 1 letter] and to drive that good man to many paſſionate ſpeeches. Some men (and women too, as Sarah, Gen. 16.5.) are over-haſty to ſend for God, as it were, by a poſt, to decide their controverſies: who, if he ſhould come at their call, would certainly pronounce againſt them.Pſal. 37. Eccleſ. 5.2. Fret not thy ſelf therefore to do evil: be not raſh with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be haſty to utter any thing in this kind before God, or to intereſt him in thy quarrels and controverſies, for he will ſurely paſſe an impartial ſentence, [illegible: 1 letter]either is there any iniquity with the Lord our God, nor reſpecting of perſons, nor rec[illegible: 1 letter]iving of gifts, 1 Chron. 19.7. One Interpreter from this wiſh of Zophar noteth, that it is an ordinary practice of hereticks (Satans factors) to mention God, as approving of their errors, if by ſpeaking he would from heaven declare himſelf plainly; and that therfore we ſhould take heed of thoſe that labour to work upon us this way, when by right reaſon they are able to evince nothing that they ſay.