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Job_9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
Ver. 28. I am afraid of all my sorrows] That come thronging thick about me, and terrify me; they will surely be doubled and trebled upon me; hence my sorrow is incurable; if I should resolve never so much against it, I should break my resolution, and fall to fresh complaints, Psa_39:1; Psa_39:3. Hic vides, saith Lavater. Here we may see how little is to be ascribed to man’s freewill in the things of God, since it is not in our power to comfort and cheer up ourselves under afflictions, though we would never so fain.
I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent] But wilt hold me guilty, and accordingly punish me. This was the language of Job’s fear; had his faith been in heart, it would have quelled and killed such distrustful fears, and have gathered one contrary out of another, life out of death, assurance of deliverance out of deepest distresses, Deu_32:36 2Ki_14:26, going into captivity was a sign of Israel’s returning out of captivity.