And do you open your eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
All Commentaries on Job 14:3 Go To Job 14
Gregory The Dialogist
AD 604
Job has surveyed both the power of Almighty God and his own frailty. Before he brought himself and God together, he considered who would come into judgment and who would judge. He saw on the one side man, and on the other side his Creator, that is, dust and God. And Job rightly exclaims, “Do you deign to open your eyes on such a one?” With almighty God, to open the eyes is to execute his judgments, to look upon whom to smite. For as it were, with eyes closed, God does not wish to look at him whom he does not wish to smite. Hence it is immediately added also about the judgment itself, “To bring him into judgment with you?” But whereas Job had viewed God coming to judgment, he again takes a view of his own frailty. He sees that no one who comes forth from uncleanness can be clean by his own will.
