John Trapp on Job 29:21

Verſe 21. Ʋnto me men gave eare, and waited] i.e. Such a gift I had in flexanimous Oratory, that my Auditours were held as it were by the ears in great attention to my ſpeeches: as Lucian ſaith of Alcibiades, and Cicero of Craſſus: and as the Poets fable of their Hercules, that he had the ears of his hearers chained to his tongue, as being, [non-Latin text not transcribed] Hom.

And kept ſilence at my counſel] Received it as an Oracle from Heaven with all humble ſubmiſſion.Tanquam ex tripode dictum. Erant [non-Latin text not transcribed] Lavat. and plenary ſatisfaction: ſo great was the force of his wiſdom, the weight of his counſel, and the authority of his perſon. In ſome mens diſcourſes a man ſhall have ſat[illegible: 1 letter] el quentiae, ſapientiae parùm, much eloquence little enough wiſdom. But where there is a concurrence of theſe two, as was in Job, much may be done. This, great men are not ignorant of, and do therefore greatly covet eloquence, Non phaleraram illam ſed fortem; non effoeminatam ſed vi[illegible: 1 letter]ilem, non a Pedantike ſtile or phraſe, but majeſtick: ſuch as was that of Phocion a great Oratour, but one that could ſpeak much in few, [non-Latin text not transcribed] Plut. as Plutarch reporteth: or that of Julius Caeſar, who wrote as he fought; and whom a man might know to be a Souldier by his words, had he never heard of his noble atchievements.