John Trapp on Job 13:14

Verſe 14. Wherefore do I take my fleſh in my teeth?] q. d. Do ye think, ô my friends, that I am in a fit of ſpiritual frenzy, and ſo far out of my wits, that tearing as it were, my fleſh with mine own hands; I mean, to uſe any cruelty towards my ſelf,Vatab. and willingly to betray mine own life? Non ſum ita crudelis, ut totus perdi velier, I am not yet ſo cruel to my ſelf (whatever you may gather by my complaints and out-cryes) as utterly to caſt away my confidence, and all care of my life and ſoul. See 1 Sam. 19.5. To deſpair in part, and for a time, may befall a godly man. See Mr. Perkins his diſcourſe of ſpiritual deſertion, where he remembreth that Luther lay (after his converſion) three dayes in deſperation. And the like is recorded of Mr. Rob. Bolton. Pſal. 119.109. Aliqui ſuſpicantur Jobum reſpondentem, &c. Pineda. But of any good man that deſtroyed himſelf, we read not. Davids life was in his hand continually (and he in daily danger of loſing it) yet have I not forgotten thy law (ſaith he) which flatly forbiddeth all the degrees of ſelf-murther, as the worſt ſort. That Satan tempted Job to this ſin, ſome do probably collect from this text. A man is to expect, if he live but his dayes (ſaith a Reverend Caſuiſt) to be urged to all ſins, to the breach of every branch of the ten Commandments, and to be put to it in reſpect of every Article of our Creed.