Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 21:6
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
6. When Job himself reflects on it he trembles. When I remember means, When I think of it.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Even when I remember, I am afraid – I have an internal shuddering and horror when I recall the scenes through which I have passed. I am myself utterly overwhelmed at the magnitude of my own sufferings, and they are such as should excite commiseration in your hearts. Some, however, have connected this with the following verse, supposing the idea to be, that he was horror-stricken when he contemplated the prosperity of wicked people. But there seems to me to be no reason for this interpretation. His object is undoubtedly to show them that there was enough in his ease to awe them into silence; and he says, in order to show that, that the recollection of his sufferings perfectly overwhelmed him, and filled him with horror. They who have passed through scenes of special danger, or of great bodily suffering, can easily sympathize with Job here. The very recollection will make the flesh tremble.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 6. I am afraid] I am about to speak of the mysterious workings of Providence; and I tremble at the thought of entering into a detail on such a subject; my very flesh trembles.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
When I remember what I have partly observed and partly felt of these things. The very remembrance of what is past fills me with dread and horror.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
6. rememberThink on it. Canyou wonder that I broke out into complaints, when the struggle wasnot with men, but with the Almighty? Reconcile, if you can, theceaseless woes of the innocent with the divine justice! Is it notenough to make one tremble? [UMBREIT].
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Even when I remember,…. Either the iniquities of his youth he was made to possess; or his former state of outward happiness and prosperity he had enjoyed, and reviewed his present miserable case and condition, and called to mind the evil tidings brought him thick and fast of the loss of his substance, servants, and children, which were so terrible and shocking; or when he reflected on the instances of Providence he was about to relate in the following verses:
I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh; which is sometimes the case of good men, both with respect to the judgments of God upon the wicked, and with respect to what befalls, or is coming upon, the people of God, Ps 119:120; and even the different treatment of good and bad men in this life, as that the one should be severely afflicted and distressed, and the other be in such prosperous and happy circumstances, is not only a sore temptation to them, but shocks their minds, and makes them shudder and stagger at it, and gives them great pain and uneasiness, Ps 73:2.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
6. Even when I remember Verily if I think upon it. The thoughts with which he is burdened arraign the administration of God, and cause him to shudder.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
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 Psa 73:1-28 , where David delivereth himself to like purpose.
And trembling taketh hold on my flesh
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Even when: Psa 77:3, Psa 88:15, Psa 119:120, Lam 3:19, Lam 3:20, Hab 3:16
Reciprocal: Gen 27:33 – trembled very exceedingly 1Ch 21:30 – he was afraid Job 9:28 – afraid Job 10:15 – I am full Job 37:1 – General Psa 73:5 – They are Eze 7:18 – and horror 2Co 7:15 – with
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 21:6. Even when I remember I am afraid, &c. The very remembrance of what is past fills me with dread and horror. As Job well knew that the account he was about to give of the prosperity of wicked men, however necessary to his argument, would have something shocking in it to the ears of those to whom it was addressed, the delicacy with which he thus introduces it is inimitable.