Matthew Poole Commentary - Job 42:2 - 42:2

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Job 42:2 - 42:2


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Thou canst do; not only by power, (for that he always thought,) but also by right; about which he had in some sort doubted and disputed. It is a maxim in law, that a man can only do that which he hath a right to do.



Every thing; whatsoever it pleaseth thee to do with thy creatures.



No thought can be withholden from thee; he speaks either,



1. Of Job’s thoughts. Thou knowest me and all my sinful and unworthy thoughts of thy providential dealings with me, though I was not able to see the evil of them. Or,



2. Of God’s thoughts. Whatsoever thou thinkest or proposest to do thou canst or mayst do it; and neither I nor any of thy creatures can either restrain thee from it, or condemn thee for it, as I have boldly and wickedly presumed to do. So this last clause of the verse explains the former.