Job 10:1-8

1 Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

2 And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore hast thou thus judged me?

3 Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? for thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

4 Or dost thou see as a mortal sees? or wilt thou look as a man sees?

5 Or is thy life human, or thy years of a man,

6 that thou hast enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?

7 For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of thy hands?

8 Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change , and smite me.

Job 10:1-8 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.