Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 5:22

22 And Moses returned unto the LORD , and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil intreated this people ? why is it that thou hast sent me?

To expostulate with him and pray to him. To the people he saith nothing, but me[illegible: 1+ letters]kly pa[illegible: 1+ letters]eth by their severe censures, as forced from them by intolerable oppression, and because their minds being now imbitter'd and exasperated they were uncapable of admonition.

By giving occasion to their greater bondage. He expostulates the matter with God not from pride and arrogance, as one that would censure and condemn his actions, but from zeal for Gods glory and his peoples happiness, as one that would prevail with God to relieve them. Though it must be confessed that Moses exceeded his bounds being transported with grief and passion, which the gracious God was pleased to pass by.