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.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
2I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
Cross References
Numbers 11:15If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”
Job 3:20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
Job 5:20In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.
Job 6:8“Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,
Job 6:26Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
Job 7:16I loathe my life. I don’t want to 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 →