John Trapp on Job 36:23

Verſe 23. Who hath enjoyned him his way?] q.d. Wilt thou take upon thee to teach this great Teacher how to govern the world? This were a ſtrange kind of arrogancy.

Or, Who can ſay, Thou haſt wrought iniquity?] Gods judgements are ſometimes ſecret, but alwayes juſt. Let not men reprehend what they do not yet comprehend, but content themſelves with a learned ignorance, till God ſhall further diſcover himſelfe, ſaying of Gods Works, as Socrates did of a certain Book that he had read, What I underſtand therein is very good, and ſo I think is that I underſtand not. When we come into an Artificers ſhop, we ſee many Tooles, the uſe whereof we know not, and yet we conclude they are of ſome uſe. Why then ſhould men raſhly cenſure Gods proceedings, which are many times in mediis contrariis, In Geneſ. [non-Latin text not transcribed] Naz. in Cypr. as Luther was wont to ſay, brought about by contrary means; that he may be the more admired, as Nazianzen giveth the reaſon. The Artificer with a crooked Tool makes ſtraight work. The Apothecary maketh of a poiſonful Viper a wholſome Triacle: ſo here. Far be it from us therefore to charge God with iniquity, for this were, with thoſe mad Manichees, to affirme,Manichaeorum diabolicus ſarcaſmus. Paraeus. That till he had created light, he dwelt in darkneſs, as if God were not an eternal Light, 1 John 1.5. 1 Tim. 6.16.