Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Job 10:8
Yet thou dost destroy me— And wilt thou tear me to pieces? Heath.
Yet thou dost destroy me— And wilt thou tear me to pieces? Heath.
Verse Job 10:8. _THINE HANDS HAVE MADE ME_] Thou art well acquainted with human nature, for thou art its author. _AND FASHIONED ME TOGETHER ROUND ABOUT_] All my powers and faculties have been planne...
THINE HANDS HAVE MADE ME - Job proceeds now to state that he had been made by God, and that he had shown great skill and pains in his formation. He argues that it would seem like caprice to take such...
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...
According to the Hebrew punctuation this verse reads, Thine hands have fashioned me and made me, Together round about; and thou dost destroy me! Mention of God's hand, Job 10:7, suggests how of old...
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...
_THINE HANDS HAVE MADE ME AND FASHIONED ME TOGETHER ROUND ABOUT; YET THOU DOST DESTROY ME._ Thine hands have made me, and fashioned me. "Made" with pains and elaborate art, implying a work of difficu...
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 could see that God designed the human body. And Job could see that this was not a simple task. God acted carefully when he made Job’s body. God did not cause Job to live by accident. Rather, God s...
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...
יָדֶ֣יךָ עִ֭צְּבוּנִי וַֽ יַּעֲשׂ֑וּנִי יַ֥חַד סָ֝בִ֗יב...
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...
Thine (k) hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. (k) In these eight verses following he describes the mercy of God, in the wonderful creation of man: and...
_Sudden, like a potter's vessel? Job was reduced to misery all at once. (Calmet) --- He acknowledges that God may destroy him as his creature; but that character encourages him to hope for mercy, grac...
(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...
THINE HANDS HAVE MADE ME, AND FASHIONED TOGETHER ROUND ABOUT,.... This and what follow are an illustration of and an enlargement upon, the work of God's hands, made mention of in Job 10:3; and suggest...
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. Ver. 8. _Thine hands have made me_] Or, throughly and accurately wrought me, as it were, with much pains and...
_Thy hands have made me, &c., round about_ That is, all of me; all the faculties of my soul, and all the parts of my body, which are now overspread with sores and ulcers; I am wholly thy creature and...
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about, having carefully and elaborately formed and fashioned his intricate organism; YET THOU DOST DESTROY ME! An exclamation of reproachful am...
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...
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...
HAVE MADE ME: _ Heb._ took pains about me...
Job acknowledges that God made him, but he is puzzled as to why God would seek to destroy his own creation....
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...
TOGETHER ROUND ABOUT, i.e. all of me; all the faculties of my soul, and all the parts of my body, which are now overspread with sores and ulcers; I am wholly thy creature and workmanship, made by thee...
Job 10:8 hands H3027 made H6087 (H8765) fashioned H6213 (H8799) unity H3162 H5439 destroy H1104 ...
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...
_Thine hands have made me._ CREATION, THE PLEDGE OF GOD’S GUARDIANSHIP Though Job reached a wrong conclusion, he was arguing on a right principle. The patriarch’s argument is this--As we are the crea...
_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...
Genesis 6:6; Genesis 6:7; Isaiah 43:7; Jeremiah 18:3; Job 10:3;...