Job 23:15

Job 23:15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

Ver. 15. Therefore am I troubled at his presence ] At the consideration of his formidable power and majesty, I am troubled and terrified; troubled at my present calamities, and afraid of fiercer. This verse then seemeth to be a correction of that wish of his above, Job 23:3 , and not unlike that, Job 13:21 , "Withdraw thine hand far from me, and let not thy dread make me afraid. Then call thou, and I will answer," &c.

When I consider, I am afraid of him ] I have always imagined that, as it were weakness to fear a man, so it were madness not to be afraid of God. Let me be accounted timorous rather than temerarious.