Charles Spurgeon Commentary Job 7:4-5

"When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh." — Job 7:4-5 (ASV)

Such was the dreadful disease under which this man of God labored, for the worst of pain may happen to the best of men.

Sometimes, God plows his best fields most; and why should he not do so? Do not men try to do most with that which will yield most? And so God may most chasten those who will best repay the strokes of his hand. It is no token of displeasure when God smites us with disease; it may be an evidence that we are branches of the vine that bring forth fruit, or else he would not have taken the trouble to prune us.