Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 6. That thou inquirest ] Is it becoming thy infinite dignity to concern thyself so much with the affairs or transgressions of a despicable mortal? A word spoken in the heart of most sinners.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - Job, being weary of his life, resolves to complain, but he will no charge God with unrighteousness. Here is a prayer that he might be delivered from the sting of his afflictions, which is sin. When God afflicts us, he contends with us; when he contends with us, there is always a reason; and it is desirable to know the reason, that we ma repent of and forsake the sin for which God has a controversy with us But when, like Job, we speak in the bitterness of our souls, we increase guilt and vexation. Let us harbour no hard thoughts of God; we shall hereafter see there was no cause for them. Job is sure that God does not discover things, nor judge of them, as men do; therefore he thinks it strange that God continues him under affliction, as if he must take time to inquire into his sin.
Original Hebrew כי3588 תבקשׁ1245 לעוני5771 ולחטאתי2403 תדרושׁ׃1875
