Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me.
Cross References
Numbers 11:15And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight, and let me not see my wretchedness.
Job 3:20Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Job 5:20In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
Job 6:8O that I might have my request, and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
Job 6:26Do ye think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who is desperate are as wind?
Job 7:16I loathe [my life]. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.
Matthew Henry on Job 10:1
Job owns here that he was full of confusion ( ver. 15 ), and as he was so was his discourse: he knew not what to say, and perhaps sometimes scarcely knew what he said. In this chapter, I. He complains of the hardships he was under ( ver. 1-7 ), and then comforts himself with this, that he was in the hand of the God that made him, and pleads that, ver. 8-13 . II. He complains again of the severity of God's dealings with him ( ver. 14-17 ), and then comforts himself with this, that death would put an end to his… Read the whole commentary →