Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 3:20

20. [Wherefore is Light given ] to him that is in Misery, and Life [unto the bitter in Soul? ]

Heb. Wherefore (for what cause, or use, or good) doth he (i. e. God, though he forbear to name him, out of that holy Fear and Reverence which still he retained towards him) give Light, either the Light of the Sun, which the Living only behold, Eccles. 6. 5. and 7. 11. Or the Light of Life, as may seem both by the next words, and by comparing Psal. [illegible: 1+ letters]6. 13. and because death is oft set forth by the name of Darkness, as Life by the name of Light. These are strong Expostulations with God and quarrelling with his Providence, and with his Blessings; but we must consider, that Iob was but a man, and a man of like Passions and Infirmities with other men, and now in grievous Agonies, being not only under most violent and yet continual torments of Body, but also under great disquietments of Mind, and the deep sense of Gods Displeasure, and was also left to himself, that he might see what was in his Heart, and that all succeeding Ages might have in him an illustrious Example of Mans Infirmity, and the necessity of Gods Grace to help them in time of need. And therefore it is no Wonder if his passions boil up and break forth in some indecent and sinful Expressions.

Unto such to whom Life itself is very bitter and burdensom. Why doth he obtrude his favours upon those who abhor them?