John Trapp on Job 19:4

Verſe. 4. And be it indeed that I have erred] Of humane frailty; for that there is any way of wickedneſſe in me (as you would have it) I ſhall never yeeld. But nimis anguſtares eſt, nuſpiam errare. Involuntary failings I am not free from: who knoweth the errors of his life? Pſal. 19.12. What man is he that liveth and ſinneth not? It is the ſad priviledge of mortality,Euphorm. ſaith one, Licere aliquando peccare, to have licenſe ſometimes to ſin.

Mine error remaineth with my ſelf.] q d. 'Tis little that you have done toward the convincing me of any error in all this time, and talk, which until ye have done, I muſt ſtil remain of the ſame mind. Or thus, You ſhall neither anſwer nor ſuffer for mine errour: what need then all this hear and harſhneſſe? Not that every man muſt be left to himſelf, and let alone to live as he lifteth. Admonition is a Chriſtian duty, and the word of exhortation, muſt be ſuffered, ſharp though it be, and to the fleſh irkſome: better it is that the Vine ſhould bleed then dye. Had Job been guilty, he would or ſhould have been as Veſpaſian is reported, Pati[illegible: 1 letter]utiſſimus veri, patient of a reproof. But his friends falſly accuſed him for an hypocrite, and fell foule upon another mans ſervant, whom they had nothing to do to condemn, Rom. 14. And hence this expreſſion of his diſcontent.