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.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
2I will say unto God: Do not condemn me; make me know wherefore Thou contendest 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 favour in Thy sight; and let me not look upon my wretchedness.'
Job 3:20Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul —
Job 5:20In famine He will redeem thee from death; and in war from the power of the sword.
Job 6:8Oh that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Job 6:26Do ye hold words to be an argument, but the speeches of one that is desperate to be wind?
Job 7:16I loathe it; I shall not live alway; 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 →