Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 30:25

25. Did not I weep for him that was in trouble ? was not my soul grieved for the poor ?

Whence is it that neither God nor man shew any compassion to me, but both conspire to afflict me and encrease my torments? Doth God now mete out to me the same measure which I meted out to others? Have I now Judgment without Mercy, because I afforded no mercy nor pity to others in misery? No, my Conscience acquits me from this inhumanity: I did not sleightly resent, but bitterly mourn and weep over others in their miseries; and therefore I had reason to expect more Compassion than I find.

Even for him who was not capable of requiting my kindness in case of his recovery: which shews that my sympathy was real, and not seigned, as it is in some who pretend great sorrow for the rich in their troubles, hoping thereby to insinuate themselves into their favour and friendship, and thereby to procure some advantage to themselves.

Marginal references: Psal. 35. 13, 14. Rom. 12. 15.; Heb. for him that was hard of day.