John Trapp on Job 18:2

Verſe 2. How long will it be are you make an end of words?] Firſt he taxeth Job of talkativeneſſe, when himſelf talked much, but ſpake little, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. De Alcibiade Plutarch. ſave only what he had ſpoken before, chap. 8. Though Job had ſufficiently refuted him But as nothing in the world is more unreaſonable then an ignorant perſon, who thinketh nothing well done, but that which he doth himſelf; ſo thoſe that bear themſelves over-bold upon their owne knowledg, and over ween their own abilities account it a great injury if any diſſent from them in opinion and judgement. And ſuch a one here Bildad ſheweth himſelf to be by his exordium ex ab[illegible: 2 letters]pto. as Junius phraſeth it, his abrupt beginning, as if he could beare no longer with Jobs prittle prattle; who if he were more prolix then his friends, he had greater reaſon, as being heavily afflicted, and falſly accuſed,Quando tandem finem loquendi ſeu nugandi potius facies? Lav. Among the Romans the Plaintiff was allowed but three hours, the Defendant ſix. But why doth Bilànd beſpeak [illegible: 1 letter]ob here in the Plural Number? Was it for Honours ſake (as Cajetan holdeth?) I ſcarce think it. Was it becauſe he thought Job to be poſſeſſed by an evil ſpirit (as Philip after Bode?) No neither. But this he ſeemeth to do, either as bending his ſpeech to the by-ſtanders, who ſeemed to favour Job, and ſometimes to put in a word for him; whom therefore Bildad looked upon as his fellow hypocrites: or elſe, by an irony he ſpeaks unto Job as unto many,Vos ô Calliope precor. Virg. becauſe he ſeemed to ſet up his opinion above all theirs, and would needs have his counter to ſtand for a thouſand pounds.

mark and afterwards we will ſpeak] Let thy words be henceforth dipped and died in thy heart before they be uttered: let our words alſo be duly weighed, that ſome end may be put to theſe altercations and diſputes.