Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me.
Cross References
Numbers 11:15And if thou deal thus with me, slay me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, that I may not behold my wretchedness.
Job 3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
Job 5:20In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
Job 6:8Oh that I might have my request, and that God would grant my desire!
Job 6:26Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.
Job 7:16I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath.
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 →