John Trapp on Job 23:9

Verſe 9. On the left hand, where he doth work.] i.e. Northward; where God is ſaid to work; either becauſe that in the North-part of heaven are more ſignes, and of more remarkable influence than in the South: or elſe becauſe the Northern parts of the world are more inhabited than the Southern, becauſe more temperate; and ſo there is more of God to be ſeen there in his works, as letters refracted in a glaſs. Seculum eſt ſpeculum, que Deum intucamur.

But I cannot behold him.] See the Note on verſe 8.

He hideth himſelf on the right hand &c.] He worketh not ſo much in the Southern parts of the world: the torrid Zone is unhabitable, &c. Yet the Ethiopian Judges were wont to keep the chief Seat for him empty, when they ſate in judgement. And beſide the Habaſſines, that large region of Nu[illegible: 1 letter]ia, had from the Apoſtles time, as tis thought, profeſſed the Chriſtian Faith: though now it hath again,Alvarez. above an hundred years ſince, forſaken it, and embraced [illegible: 1 word], and Idolatry.

That I cannot ſee him.] See the Note on verſ. 8.