As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?
Ver. 4. As for me, is my complaint to man?] Vult dicere, saith Lavater, Job's meaning is, that he complained not to man, but to God himself, who well knew his heart and his innocence, though men misjudged him. And this being so, how could he be otherwise than anxious and solicitous, since if a man be but to speak to an earthly prince, he will be afraid? It is said of Charles V, emperor, that he spake more to God than to men. Job did so, it seemeth; and this he allegeth to the shame of his hard hearted friends, who put him to it in this way.