John Trapp on Job 3:2

Verſe 2. And Job ſpake and ſaid] Heb. anſwered and ſaid. Anſwered? whom anſwered he? The Jew-Doctors ſay, he anſwered his friends, who having hitherto ſaid nothing to him, and heard as little from him, at length — rupere ſilentia [illegible: 1 word], and asked him what he ailed? others more probably conceive that Job anſwered here to ſome diſpute in his own mind, or rather with the divel. Some take this verſe for a tranſition only. Others make it a preparation for Jobs future diſcourſe, to move expectation, and win attention. The diſcourſe indeed is all along to chap. 42.7. Poeticall, and very accurate, made up in Hexameters (as Hierome holdeth) not by Job and his friends at the firſt uttering, but afterwards by Job at better leiſure: or, as ſome think,Sic & Jonas orationem ſuā; in ventre balanahabitum, & David pl[illegible: 1 letter]roſ que Pſalmos &c. by Moſes whileſt a ſhepherd in Midian, for the comfort of his poore Country-men in Egypt. Mercer ſaith that his predeceſſor Vatablus (as he and heard) had found out a way of ſcanning theſe Hexameters to others unknown, and to all, the more obſcure, becauſe the verſe cauſeth a cloud. The firſt Hexameter that ever was made in Greek, is ſaid to be this, [non-Latin text not transcribed].Anno Mundi 2580, Prima vates Phemo[illegible: 1 letter]oi A[illegible: 2 letters]ed. Chronol. 468. Birds bring your plumes, and Bees your wax at once.