Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 7:12

12. Am I a Sea, or a Whale , that thou settest a watch over me ?

Am I so great, and powerful, and dangerous a creature, that thou needest to use extraordinary power and violence to rule and subdue me? Am I as fierce and unruly as the Sea, which, if thou didst not set a watch over it, and bounds to it, would overwhelm the earth, and destroy mankind upon it? Or, am I a vast and ungovernable Sea-monster, which, if thou didst not restrain it by thy powerful providence, would overturn ships, and destroy men in it, and devour all the lesser fishes? Have I behaved my self towards thee, or towards men, with such rage and violence, as to need such chains to be put upon me? Or, is my strength so great as that of the Sea, which can endure so many and long storms one after another, and yet can subsist under them, and after them? or, of a Whale, that can laugh at Darts and Spears? as is said ch. 41. 29. No Lord, thou knowest that I am but a poor weak creature, which thou canst crush with the least touch of thy finger, without these violent and unsupportable pains and miseries; and that I have not been so fierce and boisterous in my carriage as to need or deserve these extraordinary calamities.

That thou shouldest guard and restrain me with such heavy and unexampled miseries, lest I should break into rebellion against thee, or into cruelty towards men.