But he [is] in one [mind], and who can turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth.
Ver. 13. But he is in one mind, and who can turn him?] He is ever like himself, not mutable, inconstant, or various, as men who are (as Tertullian saith of the peacock) all in changeable colours, as often changed as moved. God's name is, "I am," Exodus 3:14. And if Pilate could say, What I have written I have written, nothing shall be altered; how much more may the Lord, who is the same yesterday, today, and for ever! His decrees are immutable, his power irresistible. Some think that Job complaineth here of God's absolute power, and little less than tyrannical, exercised against him, an innocent person. If so, Job was surely much to blame, sith God's absolute power is never sundered from his justice; and it must be taken for an undoubted truth that his judgments are sometimes secret, but always just.
And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth] Id est, Cupit ac facit statim; eius voluntas est executio; that is, he desireth and doth it forthwith; his will is present execution. It is his pleasure to lay load of afflictions upon me, but wherefore it is I know not. But Job should have known that as God is a most free agent, so his will is not only recta, (right) but regula; (the law) neither may any man here presume to reprehend what he cannot comprehend.