John Trapp on Job 32:13
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Job32:13
Verſe 13. Loſt ye ſhould ſay, we have found out wiſdom] Or, See that ye ſay not, we need not ſearch out words; as verſe 11. For, we have found out wiſdom, rem acu pertigimus, We have hit the nail on the head, and ſaid ſufficient to convince him, if any reaſon would do it, whilſt we affirm that
God thruſteth him down (as it were with a thump on the back,) and not man] Who might do amiſſe, but ſo cannot God; who for as much as he fighteth againſt Job, toſſing him (as a Tennis ball, or as the wind doth a withered leafe) from one affliction to another, who can doubt but that he holdeth him a wicked man? This ſaith Elihu, is a very weak way of reaſoning; therefore never pleaſe your ſelves in it as convincing. Hoc argumentum tam facilè dilustur quam vulpes comeſt pyrum, as one merrily phraſed it. There is no judgement to be made of a perſon or cauſe by the good or evil ſucceſſe of things, ſith none out of hell, ever ſuffered more then Gods deareſt children: witneſſe that little Book of Martyrs, Hebr. 11. Neither have any ſped better here, then thoſe worſt of men, Turks, Papiſts, Perſecutors, &c.
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