John Trapp on Job 27:1

CHAP. XXVII. Verſe 1. Moreover Job continued his Parable, and ſaid]

IT was Zophars turn, and Job waited a while, as it was fit to ſee whether he, or any other of them would take up the bucklers again againſt him; which when they did not, (as hearing his high expreſſions concerning Gods Power and Providence, and haply having now a better opinion of him then before) he aſſwageth his grief by defending his innocency, and maintaining his opinion, in the five following Chapters. Here be is ſaid, after ſome r[illegible: 1 letter]ſpit, to e[illegible: 1 letter]aſſume his Parable; which hath its name in Hebrew from L[illegible: 1 letter]rding it, [non-Latin text not transcribed] Sermo figuratus princ[illegible: 1 letter]patum tenet, ac v[illegible: 1 letter]lut dominatur. and bearing ſway, becauſe allegories and figurative ſpeeches bear away the bell, as they ſay, from plainer Diſcourſes; are more gladly heard, or read, ſooner underſtood, and better remembred. The word rendred continued. is in the Original, added [illegible: 1 word] lift up; importing either, that he ſpake now with a courage, as we ſay, and with a greater Emphaſis, as having ſilenced his adverſaries; or that he uttered himſelf in an higher ſtile, and his matter were Maſter-ſentences, Maxims Axio[illegible: 3 letters], Speeches of ſpecial precellency and predominancy; ſuch as might well challenge a throne in the minds of all men.