Job 10:21

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 10:1-22

Job’s reply to Bildad (9:1-10:22)While agreeing with Bildad that God is just, Job argues that ordinary people are still at a disadvantage. They cannot present their side of the case satisfactorily, because God always has the wisdom and power to frustrate them. He can ask a thousand questions that they cannot answer (9:1-4). He can do what he wishes in the heavens or on the earth (5-9). He can work miracles and no one can resist him (10-12). If God overthrows those with supernatural power such... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 10:21

of darkness and the shadow = deep darkness. Figure of speech Hendiadys. Not two things, but one. darkness. Hebrew. hashak. See note on Job 3:6 . read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 10:1-22

Job’s challenge to God ch. 10This whole chapter, another prayer (cf. Job 7:7-21), is a cry to God for answers: "Let me know why . . ." (Job 10:2). God’s silence intensifies sufferings. Notice the legal setting again, especially in Job 10:2. Job again claimed to be not guilty (Job 10:7)."It is a remarkable fact, apparently unobserved by commentators, but very revealing of Job’s mind, that in none of his petitions does he make the obvious request for his sickness to be cured. As if everything... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 10:1-22

Job’s Second Speech (concluded)1-7. Job seeks the reason of his trial, and protests against God’s treatment as inconsistent with the natural relations between Creator and created, and with God’s knowledge of his innocence and inability to escape Him.1. I will leave, etc.] RV ’I will give free course to my complaint.’3. The work of thine hands] i.e. man, God’s creature.4-6. ’Is God’s judgment liable to mistakes like that of frail man’ (eyes of flesh), ’or is His time so short that He is in a... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 10:1-22

Job 10:1-2 'In a man under the immediate pressure of a great sorrow,' says George Eliot in her Essays, 'we tolerate morbid exaggerations, we are prepared to see him turn away a weary eye from sunlight and flowers and sweet human faces, as if this rich and glorious life had no significance but as a preliminary of death; we do not criticize his views, we compassionate his feelings.' References. X. 2. Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. v. No. 283. X. 8. H. Melvill, Penny Pulpit, No. 2342. Job 10:10 The... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 10:1-22

X.THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMANJob 9:1-35; Job 10:1-22Job SPEAKSIT is with an infinitely sad restatement of what God has been made to appear to him by Bildad’s speech that Job begins his reply. Yes, yes; it is so. How can man be just before such a God? You tell me my children are overwhelmed with destruction for their sins. You tell me that I, who am not quite dead as yet, may have new prosperity if I put myself into right relations with God. But how can that be? There is no uprightness, no... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Job 10:1-22

CHAPTERS 9-10 Job Answers Bildad 1. The supremacy and power of God (Job 9:1-10 ) 2. How then can Job meet Him? (Job 9:11-21 ) 3. He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked (Job 9:22-24 ) 4. Confession of weakness and the need of a daysman (Job 9:25-35 ) 5. Murmuring against God (Job 10:1-17 ) 6. Welcoming death (Job 10:18-22 ) Job 9:1-10 . The final words of Bildad seemed to have had a momentary soothing effect upon Job. Of a truth it is so. But here is the question, How can a man be... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 10:21

10:21 Before I go [whence] I shall not {t} return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;(t) He speaks this in the person of a sinner, that is overcome with passions and with the feeling of God’s judgments and therefore cannot apprehend in that state the mercies of God, and the comfort of the resurrection. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Job 10:1-22

AN ATTEMPT TO REASON WITH GOD (vv.1-22) Since there was no mediator, Job in this chapter (from verse 2 on) directs all of his words directly to God, reasoning with Him as regards why God should deal with him in the way He was doing. He begins his compliant by repeating that his soul loathes his life, therefore he would allow himself to give free course to his bitter complaint by directly addressing God, pleading with Him, "Do not condemn me." God had certainly not condemned him, though he... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Job 10:1-22

FIRST SERIES OF THE DEBATE The first series of the debate may be outlined as follows: 1. With Eliphaz (chaps. 4-7) a. Speech of Eliphaz (chaps. 4-5) b. Reply of (chaps. 6-7) 2. With Bildad (chaps. 8-10) a. Speech of Bildad (chap. 8) b. Reply of Job (chaps. 9-10) 3. With Zophar (chaps. 11-14) a. Speech of Zophar (chap. 11) b. Reply of Job (chaps. 12-14) It is thought the debate may have occupied several days, by which supposition some of the difficulties of the book are removed. In the... read more

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