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Job_11:11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider [it]?
Ver. 11. He knoweth vain man, he seeth wickedness also] Doubtless he beholdeth faithless men, mortals of vanity, headlong and headstrong wights; homines falsitatis (so Cajetan renderetb it), men of falsehood; homines mendaces (so Pagnine), lying persons, such as thou Job art presumed to be by thy impious words and grievous punishments: He seeth wickedness, inanitatem et iniquitatem, vanity and villany. God seeth all, how closely and cleanly soever hypocrites think to carry the matter; first hiding God from themselves, and then vainly hoping to hide themselves also from God; but "his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men," Psa_11:4. He seeth their wickedness or unreasonableness (as the word properly signifieth), for wicked men are absurd men, 2Th_3:2, they are compact of mere incongruities, solecizing in opinion, speeches, actions, all.
Will he not then consider it?] sc. To judge and punish it? Man maketh no great matter of sin, but God doth. He will "bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil," Ecc_12:14; he will see that every transgression and disobedience shall receive a just recompense of reward, Heb_2:2. This Zophar doth not only affirm, but puts it home strongly by a question (wherein he closely taxeth Job of hypocrisy), Will he not consider it? Some read it without a question, thus, But he (that is, man) considereth not, is without understanding of God’s wisdom and justice, being dull and stupid like a wild ass’s colt, as it followeth.