John Trapp on Job 21:22

Verſe 22. Shall any teach God knowledge?] None but a preſumptuous Fool will take upon him to do that: ſuch as was Alphonſo the wiſe (the Fool rather) who feared not to ſay openly,Roderic. ſanct. H[illegible: 1 letter]ſt. Hiſpan. p. 4. ch. 5. That if he had been of Gods Council at the Creation, ſome things ſhould have been better made, and marſhalled. The wiſeſt men are benighted in many things; and what light ſoever they have, it is from the Father of Lights, whoſe judgements are unſearchable, and his wayes paſt finding out: what a madneſs were it therefore for any mortal to preſcribe to the Almighty, or to define whom, when, by what means, and in what meaſure he muſt puniſh offendors? Herein Jobs friends took too much upon them; and he gives them the telling of it, wiſhing them to be wiſe to Sobriety, and not to give Laws to God, who well knoweth what he hath to do, and how to order his earthly kingdom. To diſallow of his dealings, is to reach him knowledge; which is greateſt ſawcineſs.

Seeing he judgeth thoſe that are high.] Excelſos in exc[illegible: 1 letter]lſis, the Angels, who are ſo far above us in all manner of excellencies, and yet are ignorant of the wiſdom of Gods wayes, which they know but in part; for how little a portion is heard of him? Job 26.14. His judgements therefore are rather to be adored, than pryed into: Mirarioportet, non rimari, let us reſt contented with a learned ignorance.