Exodus 18:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

If God approve of the course which I suggest, to whose wisdom I submit my opinion. For Jethro might well think that Moses neither would nor might make so great an alteration in the government without consulting God about it, and expecting his answer. Others render the place thus, both God will give thee his commands, i.e. thou wilt have leisure to ask and take his counsel in all emergencies, which now thou hast not, and thou wilt be able to endure. To their place; to their several habitations, which are called men's places, Judges 7:7, Judges 9:55 19:28,29; where their calling and business lies, from which they are now diverted and detained by fruitless and wearisome attendances. In peace, orderly and quietly, having their minds much eased by this course, and their contentions soon ended.