Job 10

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10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
10:3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? 10:4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? 10:5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, 10:6 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? 10:7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
10:8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? 10:10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? 10:11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
10:12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
10:13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
10:14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
10:15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; 10:16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
10:18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! 10:19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, 10:21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 10:22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

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Everything King James Bible:Job

(thing) by katyamatic (6.4 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Fri Jun 29 2001 at 7:39:31

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
back to: Job
Book: Job
Chapter: 10

Overview:
Job complains of his hardships. (1-7) He pleads with God as
his Maker. (8-13) He complains of God's severity. (14-22)

1-7 Job, being weary of his Life, resolves to complain, but he
will not charge God with unrighteousness. Here is a Prayer that
he might be delivered from the sting of his Afflictions, which
is Sin. When God afflicts us, he contends with us; when he
contends with us, there is always a reason; and it is desirable
to know the reason, that we may repent of and forsake the Sin
for which God has a controversy with us. But when, like Job, we
speak in the bitterness of our souls, we increase guilt and
vexation. Let us harbour No hard thoughts of God; we shall
hereafter see there was No cause for them. Job is sure that God
does not discover things, nor Judge of them, as men do;
therefore he thinks it strange that God continues him under
affliction, as if he must take time to inquire into his Sin.

8-13 Job seems to argue with God, as if he only formed and
preserved him for misery. God made us, not we ourselves. How sad
that those bodies should be instruments of unrighteousness,
which are capable of being temples of the Holy Ghost! But the
soul is the Life, the soul is the Man, and this is the Gift of
God. If we plead with ourselves as an inducement to duty, God
made me and maintains me, we may plead as an argument for Mercy,
Thou hast made me, do thou new-make me; I am thine, save me.

14-22 Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his
sufferings; but he thought that Justice was executed upon him
with Peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of
God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations,
and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure,
as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator,
become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy the work of
his hands in any humble believer; but will renew him unto
Holiness, that he may enjoy eternal Life. If anguish On Earth
renders the Grave a desirable Refuge, what will be their
condition who are condemned to the blackness of Darkness for
ever? Let every sinner seek deliverance from that dreadful
state, and every believer be thankful to Jesus, who delivereth
from the wrath to come.

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