Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Ver. 6. Even when I remember I am afraid] Surprised I am with a most formidable amazement, when I call to mind and consider how ill (by the divine providence) it fareth with me, how well with many wicked; and how little you pity me, or seek by sound reason to settle my mind; I am ready to cry out, Oh the depth of God's stupendous dispensations! Confer Psalms 73:1,28, where David delivereth himself to like purpose.
And trembling taketh hold on my flesh] Heb. My flesh hath taken hold on trembling. Totus horreo, horror hath taken hold on me, Psalms 119:53, such as makes my body to shake and shudder. So Habakkuk 3:16; Habakkuk 1:3; Habakkuk 1:13. Job had called upon his friends to mark and be astonished; here he propoundeth himself to them for an example. Quod iussit, et gessit, as Bernard saith of another. See Job 18:20 .