Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 23:2

2. Even to day is my complaint bitter : my stroke c is heavier than my groaning .

i. e. Even at this time, notwithstanding all your promises and pretended consolations, I find no ease nor satisfaction in all your discourses: And therefore in this and the following Chapters, Iob seldom applies his discourse to his Friends, but only addresseth his speech to God, or bewaileth himself.

i. e. I do bitterly complain, and have just cause to do so. But this Clause is and may be otherwise rendred: Even still (Heb. at this day) is my complaint called or accounted by you rebellion or bitterness? or the rage of an exasperated mind? Do you still pass such harsh censures upon me after all my declarations and solemn protestations of my Innocency? Heb. my hand, passively; i. e. the hand or stroke of God upon me, as the same phrase is used, Psal. 77. 2. and mine arrow, Iob, Chap. 34. 6.

i. e. Doth exceed all my Complaints and expressions: So far are you mistaken that think I complain more than I have cause. Some render the words thus, My hands are heavy (i. e. feeble and hanging down, as the Phrase is, Heb. 12. 12. My strength and spirit faileth) because of my groaning.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word]