Ibid.—And the terrors of the Lord war against me (Job 6:4). 6. They grieve at present punishments, they dread future ones.—The mind of the just not only ponders what it endures, but also dreads what remains; it sees what things it suffers in this life; it fears lest after this it suffer graver things. It mourns because in the exile of this blindness it has fallen from the joys of paradise; it fears lest, when exile is left behind, eternal death should follow. Now therefore it endures the sentence in punishment; but it still dreads from its fault the threats of the Judge to come. Hence the Psalmist says: 'Thy wraths have passed over me, and thy terrors have troubled me' (Ps. 87:17).
For after the wraths of the inward Judge pass over, His terrors also trouble, because we now suffer one thing from condemnation, and still dread another from eternal vengeance. Let the holy man therefore, weighing the evils he endures, say: 'The arrows of the Lord are in me, the indignation whereof drinketh up my spirit.' But, fearing graver things forever, let him add: 'And the terrors war against me.' As if he openly said: Being struck, I grieve indeed at present things; but this becomes more grievous in grief, because, even set in punishment, I still greatly dread eternal torments. But because he now desires the intervention of the balance, now weighs the evils into which the human race has fallen, although set among the Gentile nation, yet full of the gift of the prophetic Spirit;