John Trapp on Job 21:27

Verſe 27. Behold I know your thoughts.] ſc. By your words; as it is no hard matter for a wiſe man to do, Prov. 20.5. for otherwiſe, God only knoweth the heart, 1 Pet. 1.24. Pſal. 139.3. it is his royalty: But when men diſcover their thoughts by their diſcourſes, looks, geſtures, &c. we may ſay as Job doth here, I know your thoughts; and that by the wicked wretch deſcribed by you, my ſelf is intended: this I am well aware of, though you hover in generals, and ſpeak in a third perſon.Lib. 1. [non-Latin text not transcribed], oblig. Bartolus writeth of Dr. Gabriel Nel[illegible: 1 letter], [illegible: 1 letter]hat by the only motion of the Lippes, without any utterance, he underſtood any mans thoughts: The like ſome ſay they can do by looks. The Italians have a proverb, That a man with his words cloſe, and his countenance looſe, may travel undiſcovered all the world over.

And the devices which you wonderfully imagine againſt me.] viz. To take away, as it were by violence, my Credit and Comfort: this is the fouleſt theft; avoid it.