Job 19:21, Psa 32:4 | JFB | STEP | 21. When God had made him such a piteous spectacle, his friends should spare him the additional persecution of their cruel speeches.

Job 19:21

21. When God had made him such a piteous spectacle, his friends should spare him the additional persecution of their cruel speeches.

Psalms 32:4

4. thy hand—of God, or power in distressing him (Ps 38:2).

moisture—vital juices of the body, the parching heat of which expresses the anguish of the soul. On the other figures, compare Ps 6:2, 7; 31:9-11. If composed on the occasion of the fifty-first Psalm, this distress may have been protracted for several months.