John Trapp on Job 17:4

Verſe 4. Thou haſt hid their heart from underſtanding.] that is, Thou haſt hidden underſtanding from their heart, thou haſt left them in the dark, deſtitute of a right judgement, whilſt they condemn me for wicked, becauſe grievouſly afflicted; and thence it is that I do ſo confidently appeal to thee in Jeſus Chriſt, ſith my friends are ſo far miſtaken in this controverſie. If God give not both light and ſight, if he vouchſafe not to irradiate both Organ and Object, the beſt will be bemiſted. Every good gift and perfect cometh from above, even from the Father of lights, Jam. 1.17. It was he that made Reverend Doctor Sibbs (as one ſaith of him) Spiritually rational, and rationally Spiritual; One that ſeemed to ſee the inſides of Nature and Grace, and the world and heaven, by thoſe perfect Anatomies he had made of them all.

Therefore ſhalt thou not exalt them] Therefore thou ſhalt not give them honour: ſo Broughton rendreth it. But that's not all, Liptoti eſt, ſaith Mercer; it is a figure, wherein leſſe is ſaid, and more is meant: Thou ſhalt not only not exalt them, but thou ſhalt alſo abaſe and humble them: this conteſtation ſhall be nothing at all to their commendation in the end. It is the found knowledg of the truth according to godlineſſe, that exalteth a man, and makes him to be accounted of; and the contrary. Howbeit many great and good men have been greatly miſtaken in very great controverſies and tranſactions, as was Luther, Doctor Reſolutus, ſed non in omnibus Illuminatus. And yet how many Learned able men hath his name miſled in the point of Conſubſtantiation? Ʋrſin was carried away with it a while, till he read his Arguments which he found to be little better then Paralogiſmes. Holy Greenham. when preſſed to conformity to the Ceremonies by the Biſhop of Ely. who urged Luthers approbation of them; and are you wiſer then Luther? His ſober and gracious anſwer was, I reverence more the revealed will of God in teaching Luther ſo many neceſſary things to ſalvation, then I ſearch into his ſecret will, why he hid his heart from underſtanding in things leſs neceſſary.