George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 10:20
Lament. Hebrew, "take comfort," (Haydock) or breath. (Calmet) --- Repentance is always necessary, but more particularly at the hour of death. (Worthington)
Lament. Hebrew, "take comfort," (Haydock) or breath. (Calmet) --- Repentance is always necessary, but more particularly at the hour of death. (Worthington)
Verse Job 10:20. ARE _NOT MY DAYS FEW?_] My life cannot be long; let me have a little respite before I die....
ARE NOT MY DAYS FEW? - My life is short, and hastens to a close. Let not then my afflictions be continued to the last moment of life, but let thine hand be removed, that I may enjoy some rest before I...
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...
ARE NOT. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
He begs for a little easing of his pain ere he departs to the land of darkness. _are not my days few_ The same argument as ch. Job 7:16. _cease then, and let me alone_ Another reading is, _let him c...
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...
_ARE NOT MY DAYS FEW? CEASE THEN, AND LET ME ALONE, THAT I MAY TAKE COMFORT A LITTLE,_ Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little. But, since I was destined f...
10:20 revive (f-15) Or 'brighten up,' as ch. 9. 27....
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, 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...
Job knew that all life comes from God (Acts 17:28). Without God, Job would die. So Job prayed that God would leave him. Then, Job’s troubles would end for a brief moment. And so Job would die....
CEASE THEN, AND LET ME ALONE. — According to another reading, “Let him cease, and let me alone.” In reading this reply of Job’s, one cannot but feel that it moves upon the very verge of blasphemy, and...
הֲ לֹא ־מְעַ֣ט יָמַ֣י _וַ_†_חֲדָ֑ל_† _וְ_†_שִׁ֥ית_
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...
[Are] not my days few? (s) cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, (s) He wishes that God would leave off his affliction, considering his great misery and the shortness of h...
(14) В¶ If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. (15) If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion;...
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...
[ARE] NOT MY DAYS FEW?.... They are so, the days of every man are but few; see Job 14:1; the remainder of Job's days were but few; considering the course of nature, and especially the sore afflictions...
Job 10:20 [Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Ver. 20. _Are not my days few?_] And oh that they might not be also evil! since I shall not much tro...
_Are not my days few? Cease then_, &c. My life is short, and of itself hastens to an end; there is no need that thou shouldest grudge me some ease for so small a moment. _Let me alone_ Or lay aside, o...
Are not my days few? Was not the time of his life short enough? Could not God take from him some of the burden which was weighting him down? CEASE, THEN, AND LET ME ALONE, turning His attention elsewh...
JOB RENEWS HIS COMPLAINT OF HIS AFFLICTION...
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...
"Because God had not let him be. miscarriage or. stillbirth, he longed for. little peace before death. If God would only let him alone so he could be cheerful" _(Zuck p. 52)._ "How thankful he should...
14-22 Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much...
My life is short, and of itself hastens apace to an end; there is no need that thou shouldst push it forward, or grudge me some ease for so small a moment. LET ME ALONE; or, _lay aside_, or _remove_,...
Job 10:20 days H3117 few H4592 Cease H2308 (H8798) (H8675) H2308 (H8799) alone H7896 (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...
_Oh that I had given up the ghost! _ THE EFFECTS OF JOB’S SUFFERINGS The patriarch had already in the previous verses expressed to the Almighty that his sufferings were-- (1) Too great to render an...
_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...
Job 13:21; Job 14:1; Job 7:16; Job 7:17; Job 7:6;...
Cease — My life is short, and of itself hastens to an end, there is no need that thou shouldest grudge me some ease for so small a moment....