John Trapp on Job 42:4

Verſe 4. Hear I beſeech thee, and I will ſpeak] We have had his confeſſion follow now his Petition here. his Humiliation and Reformation, verſe 6. Theſe are the parts and properties of true repentance, that fair daughter of a foule mother, Sin, But had not Job promiſed to ſpeak no more, to proceed no farther, chap. 40.4, 5. How then doth he ſay here, I beſeech, and I will ſpeak; The anſwer is eaſie; he would ſpeak no more ſo raſhly, and unadviſedly as he had done, to Gods diſhonour, and the offence of his beſt friends. But he would not ſpare to ſpeak Supplications, as here, and to ſet forth his humble docility to give glory to God, and to take ſhame to himſelf, &c. ſuch a ſilence he knew would be ſinful and ſavour of a dumb divel. He therefore addreſſeth himſelf to God, 1. For audience and acceptance: 2. For advice and direction: In all which, he renounceth his owne wiſdome, and delivereth himſelf up wholy to God, to be taught and led into all truth and holineſſe. The matter we ſee, is well amended with Job, ſince challenging God into the Schooles, he once ſaid, Then call shou me, and I will anſwer; or let me ſpeak, and anſwer thou me, chap. 13.22. So afterwards Peter, when penitent, turned his crowing into crying: and Paul, his breathing out threatnings againſt the Saints, into, Lord, what wilt thou have me do? Act. 9.1, 6.

I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me] As a dutiful and docible Scholar, (who ſhould be [non-Latin text not transcribed]) I will ask thee queſtions, and hang upon thy holy lips for an anſwer.