John Trapp on Job 14:3

Verſe 3. And doſt thou open thine eyes upon ſuch a one?] ſc. to obſerve his faults ſtrictly, and to puniſh him for the ſame ſeverely? doth this become ſo great a Majeſty? This Job ſpeaketh non citra ſtomachum, not without ſtomack, as forgetting himſelf through impatiency, ſaith Mercer, and ſeeking to eaſe himſelf any way of the pains and colours he ſuſtained, being carried out of himſelf by his unruly paſſions. By this queſtion Job doth nontam admirari quum arguere, ſaith Brentiús; not ſo much wonder, as warble with God, that he ſhould care for ſo poor a creature, whom it might beſeem him rather to contemn. But Job ſhould have remembred, that God openeth his eyes upon man, not to puniſh him only, but to help and relieve him, Pſalm 31.15. And at another time Job could ſet it upon the ſcore of Gods favours to man that he viſiteth him every morning (viz. by his fatherly chaſtiſements) and trieth him every moment, chap. 7.17, 18.

And bringeſt me into judgment with thee] Poor me. who am [non-Latin text not transcribed],Me graviſſimit tuis judiciis extra ordinem divexas. Merl. thrice a man: that is, moſt miſerable, even me thou queſtioneſt in the rigour of thy righteous judgment. See a like expoſtulation, Pſalm 89. and all to move God to compaſſion. Our frailty is a good pleadable argument to this purpoſe.