John Gill Commentary Job 4:5

"But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest; It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled." — Job 4:5 (ASV)

But now it is come upon you, and you faint
The affliction and evil that he feared, (Job 3:25); or rather the same trials and afflictions were come upon him as had been on those whom he had instructed and reproved, and whose hands and hearts he had strengthened and comforted; and yet now you yourself "faint", or "are weary" ^F26 , or are bore down and sink under the burden, and bear it very impatiently ^F1 , quite contrary to the advice given to others; and therefore it was concluded he could not be a virtuous, honest, and upright man at heart, only in show and appearance. Bolducius renders the words, "God comes to you", or "your God comes"; very wrongly, though the sense may be the same; God comes and visits you by laying his afflicting hand upon you:

it touches you, and you are troubled ;
suggesting that it was but a touch, a slight one, a light affliction; thereby lessening Job's calamity and distress, or making little and light of it, and aggravating his impatience under it, that for such a trial as this he should be so excessively troubled, his passions should be so violently moved, and he be thrown into so much disorder and confusion, and be impatient beyond measure; no bounds being set to his grief, and the expressions of it; yea, even to be in the utmost consternation and amazement, as the word ^F2 signifies.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F26: Defatigaris, Cocceius.
• F1: (alt) aegre tulisti, Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus; "impatienter fers", Schmidt, Michaelis, Piscator.
• F2: (lhbt) "consternaris", Mercerus, Cocceius, Schmidt, Michaelis, Schultens.