Job 4:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

If we assay to commune with thee, &c.— This verse contains an apology for what Eliphaz was about to say, and is well rendered by Houbigant thus: If I should attempt a discourse against thee, thou wilt take it ill; but who can refrain from such discourse? In the following verses he proceeds to put Job in mind, that he had instructed many how to bear afflictions, and that his good advice had been effectual to the healing of their griefs; that, therefore, it would ill become him, now that it was his own time to suffer, to forget the lessons which he had taught, and to deliver himself up to despair, as he had seemed to do by the whole tenor of his speech. The several images of weak hands, feeble knees, &c. contain a fine poetical description of affliction. See Peters and Heath.