Job 10:7 - Exposition

Thou knowest that I am not wicked ; rather, although thou knowest ( see the Revised Version). Conscious of his own integrity and faithfulness, Job feels that God too must know them; wherefore it seems to him all the harder that he should be made to suffer as if he were a "chief sinner." And there is none that can deliver out of thine hand .

"'Tis excellent to have a giant's strength;

But tyrannous to use it like a giant."

Job's last ground of appeal is, that he is wholly at God s mercy, can look for no other deliverer, no other support or stay. Will not God, then, have pity, and "spare him a little, that he may recover his strength before he goes hence, and is no more seen "? (see Psalms 39:1-13 :15; and comp. below, verse 20).