Psalm 4:2 — he heard me in the calling, and in affliction you widened me
“In my calling, the God of my righteousness heard me; in affliction you widened me” (Psalm 4:1).
He did not hear me after the calling, but in the calling. When we come to know the reasons of the afflictions and of the trials, then especially we are widened.
Even if as a man the prophet calls, and because of the calling is heard by the God of his righteousness — I mean the righteousness of the one speaking — and for this reason comes to be in a widening in the times of affliction, still, as toward God, being such, he is below. For the eyes of the Lord are high, and man is low, and he needs to be pitied by God.
Greek
4.2 ̓Εν τῷ ἐπικαλεῖσθαί με εἰσήκουσέν μου ὁ Θεὸς τῆς δικαιοσύνης μου, ἐν θλίψει ἐπλάτυνας μοι. Οὐ μετὰ τὸ ἐπικαλεῖσθαι εἰσήκουσέν με, ἀλλ' ἐν τῷ ἐπικαλεῖσθαι. – Οταν τῶν θλίψεων καὶ τῶν πειρασμῶν τοὺς λόγους ἐπιγινώσκομεν, τότε μάλιστα πλατυνόμεθα. –Εἰ καὶ ὡς α νθρωπος ὁ προφήτης ἐπι καλεῖται, καὶ διὰ τὸ ἐπικαλεῖσθαι, εἰσακούε ται ὑπὸ Θεοῦ τῆς δικαιοσύνης αὐτοῦ, λέγω δὲ τῆς δικαιοσύνης τοῦ λέγοντος, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἐν πλατυσμῷ κατὰ τοὺς καιροὺς τῆς θλίψεως γίνεται· ἀλλά γε ὡς πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν ὁ τοιοῦτος ω ν, κάτω ἐστίν. Οἱ γὰρ ὀφθαλμοὶ Κυρίου ὑψηλοὶ, ὁ δὲ α νθρωπος ταπεινὸς, καὶ δεῖται τοῦ οἰκτειρηθῆναι ὑπὸ Θεοῦ.