Job 10:1
My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2I say unto God, 'Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive [with] me.
Cross References
Numbers 11:15and if thus Thou art doing to me — slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'
Job 3:20Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?
Job 5:20In famine He hath redeemed thee 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 — not to the age do I live. 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 →