(4) As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? (5) Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. (6) Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Perhaps this part of Job's discourse is as interesting and important as any in the whole controversy. He first reminds his friends, that his eye is unto GOD. From him came his affliction, and therefore from him alone he looks for deliverance. He next intimates how very strange and singular his visitations had been: and how, from the greatest prosperity he had been, in a moment, thrown down to the very depth of misery. The very remembrance of what he once was, and what he was now brought to, he could not recollect but with trembling.