John Trapp on Job 19:16

Verſe 16. I called my ſervant, and he gave me no anſwer.] Though I lay noder greateſt ſores and ſorrowes, and called them to help me, yet ſuch was their impudency and inhumanity, that they would not vouchſafe an anſwer, Conſidera hic quanta crux ſit, ſaith Brentius, à ſua propria familia a[illegible: 1 letter]ſpici & rideri; Conſider with me here, what an affliction it is, for a man to be deſpiſed and derided by his own family. A ſervants eye ſhould look to the hands of his Maſter, and the eye of a maiden to the hand of her Miſtreſs, to obſerve the motion thereof, and to pick out the meaning, Pſal. 12.2. Accounting their Governors worthy of all honour, 1 Tim. 6.1. as the Centurions obſequious ſervants did, Matth. 8.9. Sed ſic ferè ſunt ſerver rum ingenia, ſaith Merlin here: But ſuch is the condition of many ſervants now a dayes, that they will do no more then needs muſt, Jobs would neither ſay nor do.

I entreated him with any mouth.] As a ſuppliant to my ſervant, who lived upon me, but would do nothing for me, though I humbly beſought him. Here we may ſoe, ſaith Vatablus that when God is angry with a man, all goeth croſſe with him: It is good for us in this caſe, to reflect and ſee whether we have not ſerved God in this ſort. Alphonſus that renowned King, in a ſpeech to the Popes Ambaſſador, profeſſed that he did not ſo much wonder at his ſervants unthankfulneſs and undutifulneſs to him, as at his own to God.