John Trapp on Job 29:14

Verſe 14 I put on righteouſneſſe, and it cloathed me] It was not ambition, popularity or ſelf-intereſt, that put Job upon theſe and the following good practices and proceedings, [illegible: 1 letter]omem horum officiorum aperit Merlin. but the care he had of diſcharging his truſt, and the pure love he bare to Juſtice and upright dealing. For although he deſired more to be loved then honoured (as it is ſaid of Trajan the Emperour,) yet he would not do any thing of popularity or partiality, [non-Latin text not transcribed] Dio. Declinatione & detorſione judicii. Merlin. by writhing or warping, but retained the gravity of the Law; which is a heart without affection, an eye without Luſt, a mind without paſſion, a Treaſurer which keepeth for every man what he hath, and diſtributeth to every man what he ought to have. Job did put on righteouſneſſe, and it put on him; ſo the Hebrew hath it. By which ſimilitude he declareth, that he could as little be drawn from doing Juſtice, as he could go abroad without his cloathes, or ſuffer them to be puld off him.

My judgment was as a robe and a Diadem] Righteouſneſſe is that whereby the innocent is delivered, Judgment is that whereby the guilty perſon is puniſhed, ſaith Brentius. With theſe was Job arrayed and adorned, far better then was Alciſt henes the Sybarite with his cloak,Athenaus. ſold by Dionyſius to the Carthaginians for an hundred and twenty talents; or Hanun with his maſſie Diadem, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious ſtones, 2 Sam. 12.30. Some Judges have nothing more to commend them then their Robes, which are oft lined with rapine and robbery: So were not Jobs: He made the like uſe of them that old Eleazer did of his hoarineſſe, he would not do any thing that might ſeem to be evil, becauſe he would not ſpot his white head: No more would Job, leſt he ſhould ſtain his purple, diſgrace his Diadem.Salvian. He knew that dignitas in indigno eſt ornamentum in luto, Ruledom without righteouſneſs is but eminent diſhonour.