John Trapp on Job 13:7

Verſe 7. Will ye ſpeak wickedly for God?] Ought ye to defend Gods juſtice by unjuſtly accuſing me? Or muſt ye needs ſo free him from injuſtice, that ye muſt charge me with hypocriſie? Job had before called them, Phyſicians of no value; here he compareth them to Lawyers of no conſcience, that care not what they plead, ſo they may carry the cauſe for their client. But the Lord needeth no ſuch advocates; he ſo loveth truth, that he will not borrow patronage to his cauſe from falſhood: he ſo hateth flattery (though it be of himſelf) that he hath threatned to cut off all flattering lips, Pſalm 12.3. and would one day ſay as much to Jobs friends, notwithſtanding their pretended zeal for his glory, as once Alexander the great did to Aristobulus the Hiſtorian, who preſented him with a flattering piece concerning his own worthy acts, which he extolled above meaſure: hee caſt the book into the river Hydaſpes, and told the Author he could find in his heart to caſt him after it.

And talk deceitfully for him] To talk for God is our duty: it is to make our tongue our glory: but to talk deceitfully for him, to ſeek to help his truth by our lie, (the Vulgar here hath it, Needeth God your lie?) that's altogether unlawful: for ſhall we do evil that good may come thereof? God forbid, Rom. 3.8. And yet the Papiſts do ſo familiarly, and think they therein do God good ſervice: as when they deny his provident hand in ordering the diſorders of the world to his own glory, leſt they ſhould make him the Author of ſin: ſo they think to defend his juſtice by teaching predeſtination according to fore-ſeen works, by aſcribing to man free-will, righteouſneſſe of works, merit &c. So their doctrine of Equivocation for the relief of perſecuted Catholicks,Spec. hiſt. lib. 29. their piae fraudes (as they call them) their holy hypocriſie to draw infidels to the embracing of the faith, and to the love of vertue; their lying legends, made, ſay they, for good intention, that the common people might with greater zeal ſerve God and his Saints; and eſpecially, to draw the women to good order, being by nature facile and credulous, addicted to novelties and miracles.