Job 21:5

“Mark me, etc.] Or “look at me” f802; not at his person, which was no lovely sight to behold, being covered with boils from head to foot, his flesh clothed with worms and clods of dust, his skin broken, yea, scarce any left; however, he was become a mere skeleton, reduced to skin and bone; but at his sorrows, and sufferings, and consider and contemplate them in their minds, and see if there was any sorrow like his, or anyone that suffered as he did, and in such pitiful circumstances; or that they would have a regard to his words, and well weigh what he had said, or was about to say, concerning his own case, or concerning the providences of God with respect to good and bad men, and especially…”

“lay . . . hand upon . . . mouth-- (Pro 30:32; Jdg 18:19). So the heathen god of silence was pictured with his hand on his mouth. There was enough in Job's case to awe them into silence (Job 17:8).”

“Mark me - Margin, “look unto.” Literally, “Look upon me. That is, attentively look on me, on my sufferings, on my disease, and my losses. See if I am a proper object of repreach and mockery - see if I have not abundant reason to be in deep distress when God has afflicted me in a manner so unusual and mysterious. And be astonished - Silent astonishment should be evinced instead of censure. You should wonder that a man whose life has been a life of piety, should exhibit the spectacle which you now behold, while so many proud contemners of God are permitted to live in affluence and ease. And lay your hand upon your mouth - As a token of silence and wonder. So Plutarch, de Iside et Osiride,…”

“Mark - Consider what I am about to say concerning the prosperity of the worst of men, and the pressures of some good men, and it is able to fill you with astonishment. Lay, &c. - Be silent. Job 21:6”

“Mark me: Heb. Look unto me be astonished: Job 2:12, Job 17:8, Job 19:20, Job 19:21 lay your: Job 29:9, Job 40:4; Jdg 18:19; Psa 39:9; Pro 30:32; Amo 5:13; Mic 7:16; Rom 11:33 Job 21:6”