But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
As it is, because Job waited not trustingly and patiently (Job 35:14; Numbers 20:12; Zephaniah 3:2. "She received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God;" Micah 7:9), God hath visited, etc., yet still he has not taken (severe) cognizance of the great multitude (the English version wrongly, "extremity") of sins; therefore Job should not complain of being punished with undue severity (Job 7:20; Job 11:6). Maurer translates, 'Because His anger hath not visited (hath not immediately punished Job for his impious complaints), nor has He taken strict (great) х mª'od (H3966)] cognizance of his folly (sinful speeches), therefore doth Job thus open his mouth,' etc. For "folly х pash (H6580)] Umbreit translates, with the Rabbins, multitudes: 'Yet although His wrath doth not now visit, doth He not care for the great multitude?' Man's false conclusion, when God does not at once punish, is that the multitude of Gods creatures is too great for Him to concern Himself about individuals. Gesenius reads, with the Septuagint and Vulgate, needlessly, 'transgression' х pªsha` (H6588)].