Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so.
Cross References
Numbers 11:15But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me, and let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so great evils.
Job 3:20Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?
Job 5:20In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in battle, from the hand of the sword.
Job 6:8Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?
Job 6:26You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.
Job 7:16I have done with hope, I shall now live no 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 →