John Trapp on Job 4:6

Verſe 6. Is not this thy feare, thy confidence &c?] Or thy folly, q. d. Is not thy religion a meere foolery? and haſt not thou rather acted religion, play's devotion, and the fear of God, then been ſerious therein? This was a moſt bitter ſcoffe, a cruell ſhake, and came near his heart. Like as nothing vexed David more then when they laid his religion in his diſh, asking, where is now thy God? So here. By this alteration that affliction hath wrought in thee, thou mayeſt eaſily ſee what thou art, viz. a very painted hypocrite: hard weather ſhewes what health: empty veſſels ſet neere the fire, crack quickly. At the parting way, every dog followeth his own Maſter. Afflictio virum arguit, &c. Affliction ſhewes a man, it turnes the inſide outward, the bottome of the bag upward; bringing that which was at the bottome, to the top: as that ſtick caſt into the water, made the iron ſwim, 2 King. 6.6. Doth it not appeare (ſaith Eliphaz here) that thou haſt been meerly mercenary, ſerving God whileſt he proſpered thee; and now kicking againſt him, becauſe hee afflicteth thee? See how neer this man cometh, ſaith Mercer, to that firſt inſtigation of Satan, chap. 1.9. in hoc Satanae factus minister, herein acting the divels part though unwittingly, as Peter alſo did, Matth. 16.22, 23.

The uprightneſſe of thy wayes and thy hope?] q. d. Thou haſt taken to thy ſelfe many fair titles, and made a great flaunt, as if there were none ſuch; but what is it all come to? Is it any better then a flask, a foppery, a name, and not a thing? Or if it be a reality, make proofe of it. True grace is operative, and will not lie dormant.