Job 10:1
“I am tired of living. And I will not be silent and stop saying what I am complaining about. Instead, being very unhappy, I will speak [IDM].
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Numbers 11:15If you intend to act like this toward me, kill me now. If you are really concerned about me, be kind to me and kill me to end my misery of trying to take care of them!”
Job 3:20◄“Why does God allow those who are suffering greatly like me to continue to remain alive?/I do not understand why God allows those who are suffering greatly like me to continue to remain alive.► [RHQ] Why does he allow those who are very miserable/distressed to keep living [RHQ]?
Job 5:20When there is a famine, he will not allow you to die, and when there is a war, you will not be killed [MTY].
Job 6:8“I wish that God would do for me what I have requested from him [DOU].
Job 6:26I am a man who has nothing to hope for, but you try to correct me, and you think what I say is nothing but wind [RHQ]!
Job 7:16I detest continuing to be alive; I do not want to live for many years [HYP]. Allow me to be alone, because I will be alive for only a very short remaining time [HYP].
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 →