John Trapp on Job 32:12

Verſe 12. Yea, I attended unto you] Et uſque ad vos perpendebam; I throughly weighed your words, and rightly conſidered them, (as our Mr. Bradſhaw was wont to do at the Miniſters meetings, and was there-hence called the Weighing Divine) that you may not think I anſwer the matter before I underſtand it, as fools do to their ſhame, Prov 18.13.Sanctius in cap. 40. Ezek. in argum. or that I ſpeak evil of the things I know not, as thoſe in Peter, 2 Epiſt 2.12. daring to reprehend what I do not comprehend, as did that Popiſh Expoſitour who calleth Ezekiels deſcription of the Temple, Inſulſam deſcriptionem, an abſurd deſcription.

And behold there was none of you that convinced Job, or that anſwered his words] And yet they thought they had done both effectually: and that it was meerly his ſtubbornneſs, to ſtand out againſt them. Ready they were to give him up for uncounſelable; and to turn him over to God with a Non-convertetur, he is paſt our cure, we can do no good on him; none but God can put him out of his good conceit of himſelf, &c. Out of all this, a good Interpreter maketh theſe following Concluſions: 1. That we muſt diligently hear and weigh what things are ſpoken by others, before we proceed to cenſure them. 2. That we muſt not paſs a cenſure upon any one part of a ſpeech, but take it all together, ere we make judgement of it. 3. That when we have weighed every thing well and wiſely, we muſt not countenance any errour; but freely utter what we do truly and rightly think of it. 4. That we may think things ſufficiently refuted by the learned, which yet had need to be further inquired into. 5. That one younger man may ſee further ſometimes into a matter, then many others of longer ſtanding and experience. 6. That men may be eſteemed obſtinate, and opinionative, who are nothing leſs. 7. That multitude and antiquity are but ciphers in Divinity, &c.