John Trapp on Job 15:8
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Job15:8
Verſe 8. Haſt thou heard the ſecret of God?] Thus he goes on to jear Job, and to accuſe him of inſolent Arrogancy, as if he had taken himſelf to be of Gods Cabinet-Councel,Biliefi & bellicoſi. and ſo to have known more of his mind then any other. Now this never came into Jobs heart: but theſe hot ſpirited people, when their choler is once up, wil not ſtick to ſay any thing againſt another whom they deſire to gall, and to make the worſt of his words, when as themſelves cannot take a reproof, though never ſo juſt.
And doſt thou reſtrain wiſdom to thy ſelf?] Haſt thou engroſſed all the wiſdom in the world? and muſt it needs live and dye with thee? Is every man a fool preſently,An ſolus ſapis, ita ut te pareunte ſit ipſa ſapientia peritura? Vatabl. who is not of thy mind and make? Epicurius indeed had ſuch a conceit; and Palaemon, in Suetonius, and Laurentius Valla, with ſome others of late: but Job was far from it, as appeareth by his many ſelf-abaſing expreſſions: and it had been well for him, if his three friends, had taken out that leſſon in wiſdomes ſchool; viz. to judge thoſe certaine good things found in another, better then they are, and certaine evils, leſſe, doubtful good things, certaine, and doubtful evil things, none.
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