Job 12

Job 12:2

YEe are] you believe you know as much, and think you are as good as a great multitude of people put altogether: [shall die] an ironicall kinde of speech, as if he should say, in your own opinions you are the only wise men in the world, and with you shall all wisdome die.

Job 12:3

Who knoweth not] these discourses which you so much brag of, are they not common and ordinary?

Job 12:5

He that] namely I, who doe as it were hang dangerously, and am in danger of falling under the burthen of mine afflictions, Psal 35. 15. and 38. 17 Ier. 20. 10 [a lamp despised] a proerbiall kinde of speech, as much as to say, a thing of nought, and of no value; like a piece of a brnt stk, or like a smoaking snuffe, see Isa. 7. 4. and 42. 3 [of him] of you my friend, that have not the feeling, and experience of my evills, and therefore cannot rightly judge of them, nor have any fellow feeling of them.

Job 12:6

Prosper] very often, and almost ordinarily; Ib opposeth tis to his friends maxime, who said that adversity alwayes followed the wicked.

Job 12:7

The beasts] the thing is so plaine, that in a manner the vry beasts doe know it, and publish it.

Job 12:11

Try] think you that I will without any examination or distinction allow of your discourse, I who by reason of mine ge have obtained wisedome and experience, see Iob 15. 10. and 32. 6.

Job 12:13

With him] I doe with you acknowledge Gods wisdome, ustice, and soveraign power; but that is nothing touching this present case, wherein the question is, how his fatherly favour, which I am certainly perswaded of, can agree with this sme extreame rigour which hee now useth towards mee.

Job 12:15

With-holdeth] if hee doth not let it raine, the waters of the earth doe drie up.

Job 12:16

And wisedome] namely, the rule, and order of the right guiding of the world: [are his] as hee is Soveraign Lord over all, even of the Devills, and of all their instruments of deceit; so doth he goven their actions, as also the actions of sedued men, though they be wicked; so that nothing happeneth withot his permission, and without being restrained within certaine bound, and reduced unto the very point of his most just will, see 1 Kings 22:22. Proverbs 16:4. Ezech. 14 9 2 Thessalonians 2:11.

Job 12:17

Hee leadeth] in triumph like prisoners taken in the warres after he hath overcome them in their combats against his Kingdom: [Councellers] the wise Princes and Conductors of the world; 1 Cor. 2. 6 8 [spoiled] of all honour, power, and dignity.

Job 12:18

Looseth] that is to say, he degradeth them, taking away all command and authority from them; which is the bond which bindeth the people to obedience and subjection, Iob 30. 11. Isa. 45. 1. 5 [girdeth] hee causeth them to bring themselves into bondage, see Psal. 66. 11. Ier. 27. 2. 2 Kings 25:7.

Job 12:20

The trusty] the Italian, the eloquent, or confident speakers.

Job 12:21

Weakneth the strength] the Italian, ackneth the girdle, hee makes them faint-hearted and weak; a phrase taken from girdles, which bind a mans garments, and buckle his armour close to him, which makes him more steddy and nimble, see Daniel 5:6.

Job 12:22

Shaddow] namely, most hidden things, which seemed to bee buried in perpetuall ignorance.

Job 12:24

To wander] amazed, irresolute, without direction or councell in their businesss.