And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
Ver. 18. What have I to do with thee?] An unkind challenge of a perplexed, and therefore over passionate, woman, imputing the death of her son to the presence of the prophet. How ready are the best to mistake the grounds of their afflictions, and to cast them upon false causes! But what said the emperor? Let us quarrel with our faults, and not with our friends. Vatablus rendereth it, Qua in re te unquam laesi? what wrong have I ever done thee?
Art thou come unto me to call, &c.?] In the midst of her passion she retaineth her penitency for her sin, - which she acknowledged to be the mother of her misery, - and her good esteem of Elijah, whom she calleth "man of God"; and feareth that he had complained to God of some miscarriage of hers. Ever since the fall, we tremble before God, angels, and good men. See Luke 5:8 .