John Trapp on Job 21:2

Verſe 2. Hear diligently my ſpeech] Heb. In hearing hear. The Greek hath it, Hear, hear; that is, hear me out, have ſo much patience with me as not to interrupt me any more; yea, hear with underſtanding: Let your [non-Latin text not transcribed] and [non-Latin text not transcribed] meet: draw up your inward ea[illegible: 1 letter]es to your outward, that one ſound may pierce both. Lay aſide paſſion and prejudice,Gravis rationis humanae morbus eſt, quòd plerungue ſoleat ea damnare qua aut non intelligat, aut non placu[illegible: 1 letter]rit. Brent. ſuffer a word of information, for it is but one word that I have to ſay, &c. the Hebrew is ſingular, and promiſeth brevity. Only this one word Job would that they ſhould heafe double; ſcil. by an after deliberate meditation, as David did, Pſal. 62.11. God hath ſpoken once, twice have I heard that &c.

And let this be your conſolations] Comfort me this way at leaſt, that you wil give me the hearing. Hither you came as Comforters, but by your galling ſpeeches you have grieved and vexed me above meaſure. Now make me ſome amends, and remembring your Office as friends, and your deſign, which was to condole with me, and to comfort me, hear me hardly, and this I ſhall take as kindly, as if in tendereſt compaſſion you had drunk to me in a Bowle of Nepenthes, or had given me a oup of conſolation, as Jer, 10.7. The Vulgar Latine rendreth it, (but not well) Hear I pray for my ſpeech, and repent. The Hebrew robe ſignifieth firſt to repent, and then to comfort, 1 Sam. 15.35. Iſas. 40.1. became the penitent only, get ſound comfort.