Job 21:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Is my complaint to man? — “It is not to man that I complain. I do not ask for your sympathy, and, therefore, why should ye resent an offence that is not given? If, however, I did ask it, might not my spirit with good reason be impatient? But, on the contrary, my complaint is to God; and, concerning the ways of God, I venture to ask why it is that His justice is so tardy; and this is a problem which when I remember it I am troubled, and horror taketh hold on my flesh, so difficult and arduous is it.”

Job 21:4

4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?