Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Job 21:6 stands in Job 3-31, the colloquies or debate between Job and his three friends about his afflictions and the cause and object of human suffering. In chapter 21 Job answers that the wicked prosper here in this life and their punishment is future. The verse is a true record of what Job as a real man said.
Remembering what he is about to describe fills Job with fear and makes his flesh tremble, conveying the depth of his distress. Job speaks knowing his own integrity yet unable to understand God's dealings with him, judging partly from the same standpoint of wisdom and observation as his friends, trembling at the remembrance while not charging God foolishly. God saw the end from the beginning and was working out through such trial and speech what would glorify Himself forever after and bring comfort and hope to thousands of suffering ones and blessing to Job. So the book must be studied as a whole for its lesson and not mutilated.
Job 21:6 stands in Job 3-31, the colloquies or debate between Job and his three friends about his afflictions and the cause and object of human suffering. In chapter 21 Job answers that the wicked prosper here in this life and their punishment is future. The verse is a true record of what Job as a real man said.
Remembering what he is about to describe fills Job with fear and makes his flesh tremble, conveying the depth of his distress. Job speaks knowing his own integrity yet unable to understand God's dealings with him, judging partly from the same standpoint of wisdom and observation as his friends, trembling at the remembrance while not charging God foolishly. God saw the end from the beginning and was working out through such trial and speech what would glorify Himself forever after and bring comfort and hope to thousands of suffering ones and blessing to Job. So the book must be studied as a whole for its lesson and not mutilated.