The contradiction between this dealing with Job in the womb and since his birth and God's present treatment of him is only to be reconciled by the supposition that God's present severe treatment of Job had been resolved on from the first, and that His careful fashioning of him and care over him had been in order the better to carry out His purpose. The details of this cruel purpose are given in the following verses.
Verse Job 10:13. _AND THESE_ THINGS _HAST THOU HID IN THINE HEART_] Thou hast had many gracious purposes concerning me which thou hast not made known; but thy visitations and mercy are sufficient proo...
AND THESE THINGS HAST THOU HID IN THINE HEART - This may either refer to the arrangements by which God had made him, or to the calamities which he had brought upon him. Most expositors suppose that th...
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...
AND THESE THINGS HAST THOU HID IN THINE HEART— _And all the while didst thou treasure up these things in thy heart, I find by experience that this was thy purpose,_ Job 10:14. _That if I should sin, t...
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...
_AND THESE THINGS HAST THOU HID IN THINE HEART: I KNOW THAT THIS IS WITH THEE._ _ AND THESE THINGS HAST THOU HID IN THINE HEART: I KNOW THAT THIS IS WITH THEE._ These things hast thou hid in thine he...
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...
AND THESE, etc.] RV 'Yet thou didst hide these things,' etc. I KNOW THAT THIS _is_ WITII THEE] rather, 'I know that these things were with thee.' Job concludes that even from his childhood God had pur...
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 suggested a more complex explanation. Perhaps God had a secret plan. Perhaps God wanted to prove that all people were evil. So God made Job. God watched Job’s actions. Job was much better than oth...
THESE THINGS HAST THOU HID IN THINE HEART. — Job implies that his sense of God’s goodness is embittered by the thought that while showing him such kindness, He had in reserve for him the trials and so...
וְ֭ אֵלֶּה צָפַ֣נְתָּ בִ לְבָבֶ֑ךָ יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי...
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...
And these [things] hast thou hid in thine heart: I know (o) that this [is] with thee. (o) Though I am not fully able to comprehend these things, yet I must confess that it is so....
_Rememberest. Septuagint, "canst do all things." Hebrew, "this is with thee." (Haydock) --- I am convinced that thou still regardest me with affection, though it would appear as if thou hadst forgotte...
(8) В¶ Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. (9) Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust agai...
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...
AND THESE [THINGS] THOU HAST HID IN THINE HEART,.... Meaning, either the mercies and favours he had indulged him with; these he seemed to conceal and suppress the memory of, as if they had never been,...
And these [things] hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this [is] with thee. Ver. 13. _And those things hast thou hid in thine heart_] _Legendum hoc cum stomacho,_ saith Mercer: And hast thou in...
_These things hast thou hid in thy heart_ Both thy former favours and thy present frowns. Both are according to thy own will, and therefore undoubtedly consistent with each other, however they seem. W...
JOB RENEWS HIS COMPLAINT OF HIS AFFLICTION...
And these things hast Thou hid in Thine heart; I know that this is with Thee, that is: In spite of all God's care in the creation and preservation of Job, in spite of all His apparent kindness in the...
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...
The idea here may been that Job's present condition proves to Job that God has been concealing His true attitude toward him. Maybe God has had this affliction in mind all along. Has God simply been pr...
8-13 Job seems to argue with God, as if he only formed and preserved him for misery. God made us, not we ourselves. How sad that those bodies should be instruments of unrighteousness, which are capab...
This place may be understood either, 1. Of Job's present afflictions. So the sense is this, Yet in the midst of all those manifestations of thy grace and kindness to me, thou didst retain a secret pu...
Job 10:13 hidden H6845 (H8804) heart H3824 know H3045 (H8804) hid - Job 23:9;...
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...
_Thy visitation hath preserved my spirit._ ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF AND APPEAL TO GOD Job addresses God as his Creator, Preserver, and Benefactor; he seems to ask, why, knowing his frailty, He laid upon him...
_Is it good unto Thee that Thou shouldest oppress?_ JOB’S MISTAKEN VIEWS OF HIS SUFFERINGS I. As inconsistent with all his ideas of his Maker. 1. As inconsistent with His goodness. “Is it good unto...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 10:8 Job shares the wonder of the psalmist (Psalms 139:14) and the insight given to the prophet (Jeremiah 1:
_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...
Deuteronomy 32:39; Ecclesiastes 8:6; Ecclesiastes 8:7; Ephesians 3:11;...
Hid — Both thy former favours and thy present frowns. Both are according to thy own will, and therefore undoubtedly consistent, however they seem. When God does what we cannot account for, we are boun...