21:4 As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it {b} were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?
(b) As though he would say, I do not talk with man but with God, who will not answer me, and therefore my mind must be troubled.
21:4 Is - I do not make my complaint to, or expect relief from you, or from any men, hut from God only: I am pouring forth my complaints to God. If - If my complaint were to man, have I not cause?
21:1-6 Job comes closer to the question in dispute. This was, Whether outward prosperity is a mark of the true church, and the true members of it, so that ruin of a man's prosperity proves him a hypocrite? This they asserted, but Job denied. If they looked upon him, they might see misery enough to demand compassion, and their bold interpretations of this mysterious providence should be turned into silent wonder.
