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We cannot find him out, to wit, to perfection, as it is expressed, Job_11:7. We cannot comprehend him; his being, power, wisdom, justice, and his counsels proceeding from them, are past our finding out; and therefore it is most absurd and intolerable that thou, O Job, presumest to censure what thou dost not understand.
He is excellent in power; and therefore as he doth not need any unrighteous action to advance himself, so he cannot do it, because all such things are acts and evidences of impotency or weakness.
In judgment, i.e. in the just and righteous administration of judgment, as this word is oft used, and as the thing itself and the following words plainly evince. And this he adds, to intimate that although God had indeed a power to crush Job, or any other man, yet he never did nor can exercise that power unjustly or tyrannically, as Job seemed to insinuate.
In plenty of justice; in great and perfect justice, such as no man can justly reproach.
He will not afflict, to wit, without just cause, and above measure; as it may and must be limited, both from the foregoing words, and from Job’s complaint, which was of that very thing; and from the nature of the thing, because otherwise this proposition, that God
will not afflict, is not simply and universally true. Or these last words may be joined with the former; and so some render the place,
he is excellent in power, and, or but, or
yet, he will not afflict any man with judgment and much (i.e. too much)
justice, i.e. with extremity or rigour of justice.