Life. Job had intimated a fear to proceed any farther. (Calmet) --- But perceiving that he had not convinced his friends, he continues his discourse (Haydock) in still stronger terms, yet so as to acknowledge the justice of God. (Calmet) --- Speech against. Hebrew, "complaint upon, (Haydock) or respecting myself," I will deplore my misfortunes, (Calmet) or I will say no more about them. (Menochius)
CHAPTER X _Job is weary of life, and expostulates with God_, 1-6. _He appeals to God for his innocence; and pleads on the weakness_ _of his frame, and the manner of his formation_, 7-13. _Complain...
MY SOUL IS WEARY OF MY LIFE - compare the note at Job 7:16. The margin here is, Or,” cut off while I live.” The meaning in the margin is in accordance with the interpretation of Schultens. The Chaldee...
CHAPTER S 9-10 JOB ANSWERS BILDAD _ 1. The supremacy and power of God (Job 9:1)_ 2. How then can Job meet Him? (Job 9:11) 3. He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked (Job 9:22) 4. Confession of we...
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-sight...
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. LIFE. Hebrew. _chayai._ LEAVE. let go, let loose: i.e. tell forth, give vent to. COMPLAINT. complaining. UPON. about....
_leave my complaint upon myself_ Rather, GIVE FREE COURSE TO MY COMPLAINT, cf. ch. Job 7:11 _seq_....
DISCOURSE: 460 IMPATIENCE REPROVED Job 10:1. _My soul is weary of my life_. LIFE is justly esteemed a blessing: and we are properly taught in the Liturgy to thank God, as well for our creation, as fo...
_JOB EXPOSTULATES WITH GOD CONCERNING HIS AFFLICTIONS: HE COMPLAINS OF LIFE, BUT WISHES FOR A LITTLE EASE BEFORE HIS DEATH._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 10:1. I WILL LEAVE MY COMPLAINT UPON MYSELF_—...
5. HE WOULD ASK THE ALMIGHTY THE REASON FOR THE CHANGE IN HIS TREATMENT OF HIS CREATURE. (JOB 10:1-22) TEXT 10:1-22 10 My soul is weary of my life; I will give free coarse to my complaint; I will s...
_MY SOUL IS WEARY OF MY LIFE; I WILL LEAVE MY COMPLAINT UPON MYSELF; I WILL SPEAK IN THE BITTERNESS OF MY SOUL._ I will leave my complaint upon myself - rather, 'I will give loose to my complaint' х_...
I WILL LEAVE, etc.] RV 'I will give free course to my complaint.'...
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 kno...
Job did not know what to say to God (Job 9:14). He was afraid of God’s great power (Job 9:17). But Job was not afraid that God might kill him. Job’s troubles were so great that he wanted to die....
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 10 JOB PRAYS TO GOD JOB PR...
I WILL LEAVE. — Or, according to some, _I will give free vent to the complaint that is upon me._ (Comp. Job 9:27 of the last chapter)...
נָֽקְטָ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֗י בְּ חַ֫יָּ֥י אֶֽעֶזְבָ֣ה עָלַ֣י...
X. THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN JOB 9:1; Job 10:1 Job SPEAKS IT 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...
SOUL BITTERNESS Job 10:1 In this chapter Job accuses God of persecuting His own workmanship, Job 20:3; of pursuing him with repeated strokes, as if he had not time enough to wait between them, but mu...
Notwithstanding all this, Job appealed to God. Turning from his answer to Bildad, he poured out his agony as in the presence of the Most High. It was by no means a hopeful appeal, but it was an appeal...
My soul is (a) weary of my life; I will leave my (b) complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. (a) I am more like a dead man, than to one that lives. (b) I will make an ample...
(1) В¶ My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. (2) I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with...
CONTENTS Job continueth in a voice of complaint through this Chapter. He seems to express himself, as one so borne down with sorrow that he knows not what he sayeth. He pleads hard with God, for a li...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
MY SOUL IS WEARY OF MY LIFE,.... And yet nothing of a temporal blessing is more desirable than life; every man, generally speaking, is desirous of life, and of a long life too; soul and body are near...
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. Ver. 1. _My soul is weary of my life_] Because it is a lifeless life. _Mortis habet vire...
_My soul is weary of my life_ My soul is weary of dwelling in this rotten and miserable body; or, I am, from my heart or soul, weary of my life. Sol. Jarchi's comment is, _My soul loathes itself becau...
JOB'S PRAYER FOR ENLIGHTENMENT. Job now launches forth into a pitiful complaint, addressing God Himself on the great severity with which He was treating him, although He knew that he was innocent of...
My soul is weary of my life, filled with disgust and loathing; I WILL LEAVE MY COMPLAINT UPON MYSELF, giving free course to his sorrowful statement; I WILL SPEAK IN THE BITTERNESS OF MY SOUL....
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...
WEARY OF MY LIFE: Or, cut off while I live...
Job decides to become his own defense attorney. He would vent his complaint in his bitterness even if it killed him. Job had already said he despised his life (Job 9:21), now he repeated the thought....
1-7 Job, being weary of his life, resolves to complain, but he will not charge God with unrighteousness. Here is a prayer that he might be delivered from the sting of his afflictions, which is sin. W...
JOB CHAPTER 10 His life a burden; his complaint that he could not see the cause or end of God's punishment: God delighteth not to oppress; nor was his innocence, though suspected by men, hid from God,...
Job 10:1 soul H5315 loathes H5354 (H8804) life H2416 course H5800 (H8799) complaint H7879 speak H1696 ...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Bildad. CONCLUSION: Sometimes, when in affliction, the believer is tempted to think that God's providences and His justice cannot be...
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._ Oste...
_My soul is weary of my life._ ON THE CAUSES OF MEN’S BEING WEARY OF LIFE A sentiment which surely, if any situation can justify it, was allowable in the case of Job. Let us examine in what circumst...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 10:1 As in Job 7:11, Job explicitly announces his turn to address his Creator directly. ⇐
_JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD—CONTINUED_ His 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...
EXPOSITION JOB 10:1 Having answered Bildad, Job proceeds to pour out the bitterness of his soul in a pathetic complaint, which he addresses directly to God. There is not much that is novel in the lon...
Now 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...
1 Kings 19:4; Isaiah 38:15; Isaiah 38:17; Job 10:15; Job 10:16;...
Shall I — Shall I give over complaining?...