And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
Ver. 3. And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one?] sc. To observe his faults strictly, and to punish him for the same severely? doth this become so great a Majesty? This Job speaketh, non citra stomacbum, not without stomach, as forgetting himself through impatience, saith Mercer, and seeking to ease himself any way of the pains and dolors he sustained, being carried out of himself by his unruly passions. By this question Job doth non tam admirari quam arguere, saith Brentius; not so much wonder as warble with God, that he should care for so poor a creature, whom it might seem to him rather to contemn. But Job should have remembered, that God openeth his eyes upon man, not to punish him only, but to help and relieve him, Psalms 34:15. And at another time Job could set it upon the score of God's favours to man, that he visiteth him every morning (viz. by his fatherly chastisements) and trieth him every moment Job 7:17,18 .
And bringest me into judgment with thee?] Poor me, who am τρισανθρωπος, thrice a man; that is most miserable, even me thou questionest in the rigour of thy righteous judgment, Me gravissimis tuis iudiciis extra ordinem divexas (Mera.). See a like expostulation Psalms 89:46,51, and all to move God to compassion. Our frailty is a good pleadable argument to this purpose.