And [that] thou shouldest visit him every morning, [and] try him every moment?
Ver. 18. That thou shouldest visit him every morning] Be at so much pains, as it were, with him, as to chasten him; and every morning to do it, that is, certainly and early; God took Job to task as soon as he was awake every morning, and this he thought much of, and would rather have been without; but that was his weakness, since the rod is as necessary as food.
And try him every moment] Proving by affliction both what corruption and what grace is in his heart; this David reckoneth upon the score of God's favours, and prayeth for, Psalms 139:24. This God promiseth as a special blessing, Jeremiah 9:7, and with it assureth that he will try and refine his people, but not as silver, Isaiah 48:10. He will not deal with them as in rigour of justice he might do, because if he should do so, they, having more dross in them than good ore, more corruption than grace, they would soon be consumed in this fiery trial; this God considered, and so should Job have done, and have quit his growling.