Verse 4: He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. 4. As one who is wise, God cannot be deceived; as one who is mighty, He cannot be escaped. What wonder is it if we call Him wise who is the Maker of the wise, since we know that He is Wisdom itself? And what wonder that Job records Him to be mighty, when no one is ignorant that He is Might itself? Yet the holy man, by uttering these two words in praise of his Author, intimates something to us whereby he may lead us back, trembling, to the knowledge of ourselves. For God is called wise, because He subtly discerns the things hidden within us; and He is added to be mighty, because He mightily strikes what He has discerned. He cannot, then, be deceived by us, because He is wise; nor escaped, because He is mighty.
Now, as one who is wise, the Invisible beholds all things; then, as one who is mighty, without any hindrance He punishes those whom He condemns. And He who orders even this here by His mighty wisdom, ordains that the human mind, when it exalts itself against its Author, should by its very self-exaltation confound itself. Whence it is also subjoined: