As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Troubled. Hebrew, "Why is not my spirit shortened "by death, if your assertion be true? (Haydock) or why may I not be "troubled "since I have to deal, not with an enlightened judge, but with men who are under the greatest prejudices? (Calmet)
I seem to you to dispute against God. Have I not then reason to tremble? ver. 6. (Haydock)
Though he disputed with men, it was concerning Providence and eternal things. (Worthington)
42. Whosoever in pleasing God displeases man, has no grounds for sadness. But he, who in pleasing man displeases God, or thinks that he displeases both God and man together, if sadness does not come upon him, proves a stranger to the excellency of wisdom. Now blessed Job believed that he had displeased God in the midst of his strokes, and therefore he called back his mind to sadness, in that He was not to be disregarded, Whom he was afraid that he had displeased. Now, if he had been pleading against man concerning the merits of his life, he would have had no occasion to feel sadness, but seeing that by his present strokes he was made doubtful of his past life, he justly sought for sadness under the scourge.
