Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life. I will release my words against myself. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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In Context
2I will say to God: Do not be willing to condemn me. Reveal to me why you judge me this way.
Cross References
Numbers 11:15But if it seems to you otherwise, I beg you to put me to death, and so may I find grace in your eyes, lest I be afflicted with such evils.”
Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to those who are in bitterness of soul,
Job 5:20During famine, he will rescue you from death, and during war, from the hand of the sword.
Job 6:8Who will grant that my petition may arrive and that God may bestow on me what I expect,
Job 6:26You prepare speeches as so much noise, and you offer words into the wind.
Job 7:16I despair; by no means will I live any longer. Spare me, for my days are nothing.
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 →