Job 10:1
“My soul has been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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In Context
2I say to God, Do not condemn me, || Let me know why You strive [with] me.
Cross References
Numbers 11:15and if thus You are doing to me—please slay me; slay, if I have found grace in your eyes, and do not let me look on my affliction.”
Job 3:20Why does He give light to the miserable, and life to the bitter soul?
Job 5:20In famine He has redeemed you from death, || And in battle from the hands of the sword.
Job 6:8O that my request may come, || That God may grant my hope!
Job 6:26For reproof—do you reckon words? And for wind—sayings of the desperate?
Job 7:16I have wasted away—I do not live for all time. Cease from me, 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 →