John Trapp on Job 38:2

Verſ. 2. Who is this that darkneth counſel?] Who's this that talketh thus, (ſaith God, ſtepping forth, as it were from behind the hangings) how now? What's to do here? Some Ancients think it meant of Elihu; but Job is the man, ſee chap. 42.3. where he takes it to himſelf; and it may be God here pointed to him with a Quis eſt iſte Job?

That darkneth counſel] My Counſel, by miſconſtructions, his own, by raſh and unskilful expreſſions: for which Elihu alſo rightly blamed him, and his other friends took great offence at him; who ſhould rather have ſaid as Cruciger did of Luther, Eum commodiùs ſentire quàm loquitur, dum efferveſcit, that he thought not ſo ill, as he ſpoke in his heat.

By words without knowledge] This is the worſt that God chargeth Job with; words of folly and ignorance: not with malice, falſhood, blaſphemy, &c. Counſel alſo he attributeth to him, though not wiſely managed. If there be any good in us, he noteth and noticeth it; paſſing by our defects and failings: as when Sarah called her husband Lord, ſhe is much commended for it; though there was never another good word in all that ſentence, Gen. 18.12. 1 Pet. 3.6. See on chap. 35. verſ. 16.