John Trapp on Job 32:9

Verſe 9. Great men are not alwayes wiſe] Rabbies are not the Grandees of the Earth: they who ſeem to be ſomewhat, Gal. 2.6. and take it ill if they be not ſo accounted, theſe are not alwayes wiſe, or theſe are none of the wiſeſt. Non ſunt ſapientes Magiſtri. ſo Brentius reads it.Brent. Our Maſters (at ſunt Magiſtri noſtri Pariſienſes) have not ingroſſed all the wiſdom: And why? Spiritus non eſt alligatus Ra[illegible: 1 letter]binorum authoritati, & magiſtrorum noſtrorum capitiis, &c. the ſpirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord, is in no wiſe bound to ſuch, nor are his gifts held captive by any, but freely diſtributed according to the good pleaſure of his will, who worketh all, and in all. Paphnutius was wiſer than the whole Council, John Wicliffe, than the Univerſity of Oxford. Daniel, than all the Magicians of Babylon. Patres [illegible: 1 letter]gondicum venia. Auguſtine being oppreſſed with the authority of the Fathers, ſaith, he regardeth not Quis, but Quid; who ſpeaketh a thing, but what he ſpeaketh.

Neither do the aged underſtand judgement] Prudence is not proper to old age: and though knowledge be the daughter of time, it doth not alwayes fall out, that the moſt aged, are the moſt learned. Wiſdom doth not ever lean upon a ſtaffe, nor look through ſpectacles. Experience giveth us to ſee both old fools and young wiſe men, ſome of each ſort. When the state of Venice once ſent two young men Ambaſſadours to the Emperour Frederike 4. and he being offended at their age, refuſed to admit them, they did him to know, That if the Venetians had valued men by their gravity and well-grown beards, as the only wiſe men, they would, doubtleſſe, have ſent on their Embaſſie, a paire of well-bearded Goa[illegible: 1 letter]es: For, Si prolixa facit ſapitnem barba, quid obſtat Barbatus p[illegible: 1 letter]ſſit quin caper eſſe Plato?