Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 5. But now it is come upon thee ] Now it is thy turn to suffer, and give an example of the efficacy of thy own principles; but instead of this, behold, thou faintest. Either, therefore, thou didst pretend to what thou hadst not; or thou art not making a proper use of the principles which thou didst recommend to others.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-6 - Satan undertook to prove Job a hypocrite by afflicting him; and his friends concluded him to be one because he was so afflicted, and showe impatience. This we must keep in mind if we would understand what passed. Eliphaz speaks of Job, and his afflicted condition, with tenderness; but charges him with weakness and faint-heartedness. Me make few allowances for those who have taught others. Even piou friends will count that only a touch which we feel as a wound. Lear from hence to draw off the mind of a sufferer from brooding over the affliction, to look at the God of mercies in the affliction. And ho can this be done so well as by looking to Christ Jesus, in whose unequalled sorrows every child of God soonest learns to forget his own?
Original Hebrew כי3588 עתה6258 תבוא935 אליך413 ותלא3811 תגע5060 עדיך5704 ותבהל׃926
