John Trapp on Job 13:21

Verſe 21. With-draw thy hand far from me, and let not &c.] Neither afflict me, nor affright me. See the ſame requeſt chap. 9.34. and granted by God, chap. 38.3. and 40.7. They muſt be very ſorry prayers indeed that God will not heare, if they come from honeſt hearts, Pſalm 31.22. I ſaid in my haſte, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheleſſe thou heardſt the voice of my ſupplications when I cryed unto thee. For the ſenſe of this whole verſe, ſee the Notes on chap. 9.34.

And let not thy dread make me afraid] Appear not unto me in thy Majeſty, but in thy mercy: come not upon me in ſuch a terrifical manner, as through aſtoniſhment at thy ſurpaſſing glory to kill me, for who can ſee thy face and live? Surely as the ſight of the eye is dazeled with the Sun, or a chryſtal glaſſe broken with the fire; ſo there is ſo much dread in the face of God, that the beſt cannot behold it. Deſtruction from God was a terrour to me, and by reaſon of his highneſſe I could not endure, Job 31.23.