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John Trapp on Job 32:14

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Job32:14

Verſe 14. Now he hath not directed his ſpeech againſt me] And ſo I have no particular edge or grudge againſt him, he hath no reaſon to think that I come prejudicated or exaſperated. This Elihu ſpeaketh purpoſely, to get within Job; that he might the better perſwade with him. We muſt endeavour to preſerve in the party with whom we would prevaile, an opinion of our love and good affection to him; for elſe we ſhall loſe all our ſweet words, ſith man is a croſs and crabbed creature; duci vult, trahi non vult; lead him you may, drag him you muſt not.

Neither will I anſwer him with your ſpeeches] But with better: He ſhall have from me ſoft words and hard Arguments; I will come over him in a milder manner, and to better purpoſe; whilſt, moved merely by a zeal for Gods glory, I ſhall ſhew him his miſcarriages, not in mine own words, but in Gods. That's a true ſaying of learned Junius, Perſonatae reprehenſiones frigent; plerimumque intereſt ex animo omnia, ut conſcientia fert animuſque, facias; an de induſtria.

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