Job 10:1
I hate my life! Let me speak freely about my complaints—I can't keep my bitterness to myself.
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2I will tell God, “Don't just condemn me—tell me what you have against me.
Cross References
Numbers 11:15If this is the way you're going to treat me, then please just kill me now so I don't have to face how depressed I've become. Please grant me this one request.”
Job 3:20Why does God give life to those who are suffering, living bitterly miserable lives,
Job 5:20In times of famine he will rescue you from death, and in times of war he will save you from the power of the sword.
Job 6:8Oh, if only I could have what I really want, that God would give me what I most desire—
Job 6:26Are you going to argue over what I said, when the words of someone in despair should be left to blow away in the wind?
Job 7:16I hate my life! I know I won't live long. Leave me alone because my life is just 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 →