Job 10:1
“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
Cross References
Numbers 11:15If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
Job 5:20In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
Job 6:8If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:
Job 6:26Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
Job 7:16I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but 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 →