John Trapp on Job 35:2

Verſe 2. Thinkeſt thou this to be right?] Heb. Reckoneſt thou this to be right? q.d. I appeal to thine own conſcience. This is a ſigne of great confidence in the Appealer, yet may it be done by men of corrupt minds, deſtitute of the truth: Witneſſe that bold Anabaptiſt,Scult. Annal. that in a ſolemn Diſpuation at Tigure, appealed to Zuinglius, as if convinced in his own conſcience, he had inwardly favoured Anabaptiſm. And thoſe impudent Papiſts,Gagge of the New Goſpel. Preface. that report themſelves to our conſciences, to tell them, Whether our condemnation be not ſo expreſly ſet down in our own Bibles, and ſo clear to all the world, that nothing more needs thereto, then that they know to read, and to have their eyes in their heads at the opening of our Bible: To tell them more-over,Idem ibid. whether England hath not brought forth within theſe few yeares paſt, to the number of twenty ſeveral ſorts of Bibles, farre different one from another.

That thou ſaidſt, My righteouſneſſe is more then Gods] Heb. My righteouſneſſe is before Gods. Diodate rendreth it, My Righteouſneſſe is from God; that is, I am ſure God will juſtifie me, though men condemn me. But it is better to render it, Prae Deo, more then Gods (ſee a like expreſſion, Heb. 12.24.) underſtanding it of the juſtice of his Cauſe, and not of his Perſon. But taking it ſo too, when and where did Job ever ſay that his righteouſneſs was more then Gods? No where ſurely in ſo many words, for then doubtleſſe Satan, and not Job, would have carryed away the victory in this conflict. Neither ſurely could this be rightly gathered out of Jobs words, but detorted and miſconſtrued. Elihu therefore reproved him with two great auſterity, neither can any thing be pleaded for him but this, that he pleaded for God; of whoſe glory he was ſo very tender, that he could not brook or bear with any ſyllable of a word that ſeemed to detract from it.