Job 21:6

Job 21:6 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 .