John Trapp on Job 15:14

Verſe 14. What is man that he ſhould be clean?] Eliphaz hath now done chiding (it is but time he ſhould) and falls to reaſoning; wherein nevertheleſſe he ſheweth himſelf an empty and troubleſome Diſputer urging again the ſame Arguments as before, chap. 14.17, 18, 19. and not reſting ſatisfied in a ſufficient anſwer. Did Job ever aſſert himſelf clean? Said he not the clean contrary in many places? ſee chap. 14.4. Only as waſhed, ſanctified, and juſtified in the name of the Lord Jeſus, and by the Spirit of his God, 1 Cor. 6.11. he diſcourſed of his integrity and righteouſneſſe; not denying himſelf otherwiſe tainted with Original ſin, and guilty of actual; which he begged pardon for, according to the tenour of the Covenant of Grace. And therefore Eliphaz might have ſpared theſe words, and better beſtowed his pains in comforting Job, and exhorting him to patience. The Jeſuites have at this day a device in handling Texts of Scripture by their nice diſtinctions to perplex and obſcure the cleareſt places; and for thoſe that are doubtful, not at all to diſtinguiſh or illuſtrate them. Again, in points of controverſie they make a great putther about that which we deny not, but ſay little or nothing to the maine buſineſſe.

Hac que deſperant reniteſcere poſſe relinquunt.