John Trapp on Job 3:20

Verſe 20. Wherefore is light given to him that is in miſery?] Job hath not done yet, though he had ſaid more then enough of this matter; but for want of the oyle of joy and gladneſſe, his doors move not without creaking, his lips (like ruſty hinges) open not without murmuring and complaining: Good therefore is that counſel given by David, Ceaſe from anger, and forſake wrath; take up in time, before it hath wholly leavened and ſowred you: fret not thy ſelf in any wiſe to do evill. Pſal. 37.8. Hee ſhall not chuſe but do evil who is ſick of the fret. David had the ſad experience of this, when he had carted the Ark, and thereupon God had made a breach upon Ʋzzah: David was diſpleaſed, ſaith the Text: and how untowardly ſpake hee, as if the fault were more in God then in himſelf; though afterwards he came to a ſight of his own error, 1 Chron. 13.11. with 15.2. And ſo did Job, no doubt, when come to himſelf: but here he proceeds to expreſſe his peeviſhneſſe and impatience, yea, againſt God himſelf (though not by name, forſan ſeſe cohibens — ob bonae mentis reliquias, ſaith Mercer, out of his good reſpect to God, which he ſtill retained:) and calls for a reaſon, why the miſerable ſhould be condemned to live, ſince death would be much more welcome to them. How apt are men to think there is no reaſon for that for which they can ſee no reaſon?