Commentaire sur Job 6:10

Then should I yet have comfort And this shall yet be to me for comfort.

Job finds no comfort in the prophetic message related by Eliphaz that his suffering is temporary and that since it will save him from perdition it is ultimately for his own good. In his present condition the only pity he wants is to be allowed to die, for he is beyond healing.

and I will beg, shuddering, that He should have no pity And I will beg of Him with shuddering (Shem Ephraim) that He not refrain from finishing me off: I cannot find any similar word in Scriptures, except that in Mishnaic Hebrew it is an expression of fear and concern, that the hand fears them lest it be scalded in boiling water. That is to say, I will shudder with concern and with shuddering request this.

for I have not denied I did not fail to fulfill His words.