John Trapp on Job 32:6

Verſe 6. I am young, and ye are very old] Yet was he nothing inferiour to any of them in wit, piety,Niceph. and learning: he had lived long in a little time, and was (as One ſaith of Macarius) [non-Latin text not transcribed] an old-young-man; as if he had been an Alban-born, qui albo crine naſcuntur, Caniciem habent auſpicium capillarum. Solin. who come into the world hoar-headed, as did Seneca; and thence had his name, as Caſſiodorus thinketh, quòd canus, quaſi ſenior natus ſit. Some young men are ripe betime, and more ready-headed than their ancients: as David was, Pſal. 119.100. and as Solomon was, a child-King, but very wiſe: contrarily, his ſon and ſucceſſour Rehoboam entered into the Kingdom at a ripe age; yet Solomon was the man, and Rehoboam the child. Age is no juſt meaſure of wiſdom. There are beard-leſs ſages, and gray-headed children. Not the Ancient are wiſe, but the wiſe is Ancient; as Elihu will tell us in the next verſes.

Wherefore I was afraid, and durſt not ſhew you mine opinion] Heb. My knowledge; that is, the truth, ſo far as I underſtand it; ſiquid ego ant [illegible: 2 letters]pio, ant ſapio; if I have any judgement. Thus he delivers himſelf in modeſt terms; uſing many prefaces. And if hereafter he ſeem to boaſt, and ſet up himſelf above the reſt, as he doth, it is out of his zeal for God, whoſe honour he ſeeketh, and not his own. The words here rendred, I was afraid, and to ſhew, are both Syriack. Elihu, by his family of Ram or Aram, may ſeem to be that country-man; and to have a touch of that dialect, as Livy had of his Patavinity.