Job 4:5

it is come upon thee Rather, it cometh. Itis the calamity, which Eliphaz does not care further to particularize.

art troubled Or, art confounded, losest self-possession, as Job had indeed described himself as one wholly perplexed, "whose way was hid," Job 3:23.

We must beware of supposing that there is any flavour of sarcasm in the words of Eliphaz, as if he hinted that Job found it an easier thing to administer comfort to others than to take home the comfort to himself. Such a thing is wholly foreign to the mood of Eliphaz at starting, who, though he does find something to blame in Job's state of mind, is perfectly sincere and friendly. It is equally irrelevant to the connexion.

Those whom Job had consoled are to be supposed pious men under trials. Job, as a man of deep religious experience, was able to set before them such views of providence, and of the uses of adversity in God's hand, and open up such prospects to them, that he upheld and confirmed them. The Job 4:3-5 are incomplete, and form the foreground to Job 4:6, which express the real point of the statement of Eliphaz.