George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 10:2
Judgest. Hebrew, "contendest with me," as with an enemy? Is it to punish some fault, or only to make thy grace shine forth? (Calmet)
Judgest. Hebrew, "contendest with me," as with an enemy? Is it to punish some fault, or only to make thy grace shine forth? (Calmet)
Verse Job 10:2. _DO NOT CONDEMN ME_] Let me not be afflicted in thy wrath. _SHOW ME WHEREFORE THOU CONTENDEST_] If I am afflicted because of my sins, show me what that sin is. God never afflicts but...
I WILL SAY UNTO GOD, DO NOT CONDEMN ME - Do not hold me to be wicked - תרשׁיעני אל _'al_ _tarshı̂y‛ēnı̂y_. The sense is, “Do not simply hold me to be wicked, and treat me as such, without showing me...
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...
_Do not condemn me_ Or, _make me not guilty_; that is, by mere arbitrary will. Job felt himself "made guilty" by his afflictions, which to all were proofs that God held him guilty. _thou contendest w...
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...
_I WILL SAY UNTO GOD, DO NOT CONDEMN ME; SHEW ME WHEREFORE THOU CONTENDEST WITH ME._ Show me ... - Do not, by virtue of thy mere sovereignty, treat me as guilty, without showing me the reasons....
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...
God created Job’s body. So Job was God’s ‘own work’. But now God seemed to oppose Job. And God seemed to help wicked men. This did not seem sensible to Job. But Job did not have any other explanation....
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 SAY UNTO GOD... — This is a model of prayer for all, combining the prayer of the publican (Luke 18:13), and a prayer for that light for which we long so earnestly in times of affliction and dar...
אֹמַ֣ר אֶל ־אֱ֭לֹוהַּ אַל ־תַּרְשִׁיעֵ֑נִי הֹֽ֝ודִיעֵ֗נִי...
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...
I will say unto God, Do not (c) condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. (c) He would not that God would proceed against him by his secret justice, but by the ordinary means that he pun...
(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...
_REMONSTRANCE WITH GOD_ ‘I will say unto God, etc.’ Job 10:2 I. AFTER THE AUDACIOUS WORDS AT THE CLOSE OF CHAPTER 9 JOB TURNS TO GOD IN THE VERY BITTERNESS OF HIS SOUL, and ‘Show me,’ he says, ‘whe...
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...
I WILL SAY UNTO GOD, DO NOT CONDEMN ME,.... Not that he feared eternal condemnation; there is none to them that are in Christ, and believe in him as Job did; Christ's undertakings, sufferings, and dea...
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...
_I will say unto God, Do not condemn me_ Hebrew, אל תרשׁיעני, _al tarshigneeni, Do not pronounce me to be a wicked man;_ as my friends do; neither deal with me as such, as I confess thou mightest do,...
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...
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me, letting him die the death of a guilty person against the testimony of his conscience. SHOW ME WHEREFORE THOU CONTENDEST WITH ME, letting him know the definite c...
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...
"I WILL SAY TO GOD": This is what Job would say to God if given the chance, you might say he is rehearsing his speech. "LET ME KNOW WHY": He wants an answer. He would begin his speech with an outright...
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...
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 m...
Job 10:2 say H559 (H8799) God H433 condemn H7561 (H8686) Show H3045 (H8685) contend H7378 (H8
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...
_Do not condemn me._ THE CRY OF PENITENCE I. 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. T...
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 Corinthians 11:31; 1 Corinthians 11:32; Job 34:31; Job 34:32; Job
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 friend...