Job 10:2

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 10:1-22

Job 10:1-Song of Solomon : . Job’ s tone becomes sharper. He accuses God of having created him only to torment him. What profit is there to God in destroying the work that has cost Him so much pains? ( Job 10:3)? Is God short-sighted, so that He sees faults where they do not exist ( Job 10:4)? How can He be, when He is eternal ( Job 10:5)? Yet He inquires after Job’ s sin, torturing to make him confess ( Job 10:6 f.). Job reminds God how He has made him ( Job 10:10 f. describes according to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 10:2

Do not condemn me; or, Pronounce me not to be a wicked man, as my friends do; neither deal with me as such, as I confess thou mightest do by thy sovereign power and in rigorous justice. O discover my integrity by removing this stroke, for which my friends so highly censure and condemn me. Wherefore, i.e. for what ends and reasons, and for what sins? for I am not conscious to myself of any peculiar and eminent sins by which I have deserved to be made the most miserable of all mortals. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 10:1-22

JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD—CONTINUEDHis speech takes the form rather of an expostulation with God in regard to his afflictions. The vehemence of his spirit reaches its height in this chapter. Does not renounce God, but takes great liberty in addressing Him. The liberty, however, rather that of a child with a father whose clouded and averted face he can neither understand nor endure.I. His impatience of life, and his resolution to give free vent to his complaints (Job 10:1).“My soul is weary of (or,... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Job 10:2

The Sweet Uses of Adversity November 13th, 1859 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me." Job 10:2 . And will God contend with man? If God be angry, can he not take away the breath of his nostrils, and lay him low in the dust of earth? If the heart of the Almighty be moved unto hot displeasure, can he not speak in his anger, and will not the soul of man sink into the lowest hell? Will God contend will he set himself in battle array against his creature? and... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 10:1-22

Chapter 10Now Job goes on in the tenth chapter. He said,My soul is weary of my life ( Job 10:1 );He goes right back into his misery. He looks for the answer, but it isn't there; it isn't to be found. And so I return back to my weariness of life.I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me where you are contending with me. Is it good unto thee that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 10:1-22

Job 10:1 . I will leave my complaint upon myself. These words seem to imply, that he would bear his complaint in silence; but it immediately follows, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. Ostervald, in his treatise on the sacred ministry, has remarked that the book of Job, the Psalms, and the Proverbs are ill translated. Here indeed the versions seem to err by following the Vulgate; but the LXX admirably relieve this passage. “My soul being weary of life, I will bring my complaints... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 10:2

Job 10:2Do not condemn me.The cry of penitenceI. This is the language of a sincere penitent. It expresses a dread of condemnation, and a fear of future punishment. This impression is awakened by--1. The recollection of past sins.2. By a sense of present suffering.II. It implies that there are some persons whom God will certainly condemn. The sentence to “depart” will be pronounced by the righteous Judge, and it will be addressed especially to three classes of individuals. To the prayerless, the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 10:2

Job 10:2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. Ver. 2. I will say unto God, do not condemn me ] You may say so as a humble suppliant, but not as holding yourself innocent, and therefore harshly dealt with. The Hebrew is, Do not make me wicked; rather do good, O Lord, to those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts; but lead me not forth with the workers of iniquity, as a malefactor is led forth to execution, Psalms 125:5 . Show... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 10:2

Do not: Psalms 6:1-Numbers :, Psalms 25:7, Psalms 38:1-Ruth :, Psalms 109:21, Psalms 143:2, Romans 8:1 show me: Job 8:5, Job 8:6, Job 34:31, Job 34:32, Psalms 139:23, Psalms 139:24, Lamentations 3:40-Luke :, Lamentations 5:16, Lamentations 5:17, 1 Corinthians 11:31, 1 Corinthians 11:32 Reciprocal: Numbers 11:11 - wherefore have 1 Samuel 1:16 - out of 1 Samuel 6:3 - known 2 Samuel 21:1 - of the Lord Job 6:24 - cause me Job 9:3 - he will contend Job 9:15 - I would Job 13:24 - hidest thou Job... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 10:2

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.Condemn — Or, pronounce me not to be a wicked man, neither deal with me as such, as I confess thou mightest do in rigorous justice: O discover my integrity by removing this stroke, for which my friends condemn me.Wherefore — For what ends and reasons, and for what sins; for I am not conscious to myself of any peculiar sins by which I have deserved to be made the most miserable of all men. When God afflicts, he... read more