Verse 4. — 'Is my dispute against man, that I should not deservedly be grieved?' 42. Job, made humbler by his scourges, feared only that he had displeased God. — Everyone who, pleasing God, displeases men, has no cause for sadness. But whoever either, pleasing men, displeases God, or believes that he displeases both God and men at once — if sadness does not affect him, he is a stranger to the virtue of wisdom. Now blessed Job believed that amid his scourges he had displeased God, and therefore recalled his mind to sadness, because he was not to be despised whom he dreaded he had displeased. But if he were disputing against man concerning the merits of his life, he ought by no means to have been grieved;
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然而因他藉著眼前的鞭打，對自己過去的生平生了疑慮，他在鞭打中尋求憂傷便是理所當然。因此他又加上說：
but because through his present scourges he had become doubtful concerning his past life, he rightly sought sadness in his scourge. Whence also he adds: