Job 10:1-10

1 "I am just worn out. "By my life [I swear], I will never abandon my complaint; I will speak out in my soul's bitterness.

2 I will say to God, 'Don't condemn me! Tell me why you are contending with me.

3 Do you gain some advantage from oppressing, from spurning what your own hands made, from shining on the schemes of the wicked?

4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as humans see?

5 Are your days like the days of mortals? Are your years like human years,

6 that you have to seek my guilt and search out my sin?

7 You know that I won't be condemned, yet no one can rescue me from your power.

8 Your own hands shaped me, they made me; so why do you turn and destroy me?

9 Please remember that you made me, like clay; will you return me to dust?

10 Didn't you pour me out like milk, then let me thicken like cheese?

Job 10:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 10

Job here declares the greatness of his afflictions, which made him weary of his life, and could not help complaining; entreats the Lord not to condemn him but show him the reason of his thus dealing with him, Job 10:1,2; and expostulates with him about it, and suggests as if it was severe, and not easily reconciled to his perfections, when he knew he was not a wicked man, Job 10:3-7; he puts him in mind of his formation and preservation of him, and after all destroyed him, Job 10:8-12; and represents his case as very distressed; whether he was wicked or righteous it mattered not, his afflictions were increasing upon him, Job 10:13-17; and all this he observes, in order to justify his eager desire after death, which he renews, Job 10:18,19; and entreats, since his days he had to live were but few, that God would give him some respite before he went into another state, which he describes, Job 10:20-22.