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John Trapp on Job 36:2

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Job36:2

Verſe 2. Suffer me a little, and I will ſhew thee] He promiſeth brevity, and thereby wooeth attention: brevity and perſpicuity are to great graces of ſpeech, and do very much win upon intelligent hearers, who love to hear much in few, and cannot away with tedious prolixities. When a great Trifler had made an empty diſcourſe in the preſence of Ariſtotle, and then cryed him mercy for troubling him ſo long: You have not troubled me at all, ſaid He, for I ſcarce hearkned to any one word you ſaid all this while.

That I have yet to ſpeak on Gods behalf] Heb. That there are yet words for God. His zeal for Gods glory drew from him this following ſpeech, wherein inſignis eſt Elihu & magnificus: Elihu excelleth himſelf; and appeareth to be no worſe an Orator then was M. Craſſus among the Romans,Cic. de Orat. l. 1. who had this commendation given him, Quod cum aliquid accuratiùs dixiſſet, ſemper ferè contigit ut nunquam dixiſſe meliùs putaretur, That when ever he ſpake, it was judged to be the very beſt that ever he ſpake.

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