Job 13:22

22. These phrases are regarded as judicial. He calls upon God to appear either as plaintiff or defendant. “In contrast with God Job feels himself to be a poor worm, but his consciousness of innocence makes him a Titan.”

Delitzsch. The language of Job is that of passion, which he himself in soberer moments condemned.

Third division THE APPEAL TO GOD, Job 13:23-28, and chap. 14.

First strophe As if God stood before him in the character of an accuser, Job plies him for the reasons of his conduct: 1. That he should hide his face; 2. Show himself an enemy; 3. Issue bitter decrees against him; 4. “Punish sins long since passed;” 5. Cruelly hamper and imprison him with disease, Job 13:23-28: a gradation Mercerus had observed.

Hitzig supposes that Job here made a pause, in expectation “that God would appear and take up the word.”