Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Job 10:18
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth? — Here Job reverts to the strain of his original curse (Job 3:11, &c.).
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth? — Here Job reverts to the strain of his original curse (Job 3:11, &c.).
Verse Job 10:18. _WHEREFORE THEN_] Why didst thou give me a being, when thou didst foresee I should be exposed to such incredible hardships? See on Job 3:10, c....
WHEREFORE THEN HAST THOU BROUGHT ME FORTH - See the notes at Job 3:11....
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...
WHEREFORE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. OH...! Figure of speech _Ecphonesis._ GIVEN UP THE GHOST. died. Hebrew. _gava'._ Compare Job 3:11; Job 13:19; Job 14:10. Not...
Perplexed even to despair by this idea of the purpose of God Job asks, Why God ever gave him existence at all? and as in ch. Job 3:11 _seq_. wishes he had never seen life. _hast thou brought_ DIDST 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...
_WHEREFORE THEN HAST THOU BROUGHT ME FORTH OUT OF THE WOMB? OH THAT I HAD GIVEN UP THE GHOST, AND NO EYE HAD SEEN ME!_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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 realised that he could not explain his troubles. His pain was great. He wanted to die. He returned to the subjects that he discussed in chapter 3....
וְ לָ֣מָּה מֵ֭ רֶחֶם הֹצֵאתָ֑נִי אֶ֝גְוַ֗ע וְ
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...
(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...
WHEREFORE THEN HAST THOU BROUGHT ME FORTH OUT OF THE WOMB?.... Into this world; this act is rightly ascribed by Job to the Lord, as it is by David, Psalms 22:9; which kind act of God Job complains of,...
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! Ver. 18. _Wherefore hast thou brought me forth out of the womb?_] Why? but was not...
Wherefore, then, hast Thou brought me forth out of the womb? He renews his complaint, bewailing the fact that he was ever born. OH, THAT I HAD GIVEN UP THE GHOST, AND NO EYE HAD SEEN ME! He would have...
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...
Again, as in chapter. and Job 6:8-9, Job wishes that he had never been born, to have been carried from the womb to the tomb. Of course such is foolish, for countless generations have benefited from th...
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...
To wit, alive, i.e. that I had never been born alive....
Job 10:18 out H3318 (H8689) womb H7358 perished H1478 (H8799) eye H5869 seen H7200 (H8799) hast thou -...
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...
Jeremiah 15:10; Jeremiah 20:14; Job 11:20; Job 14:10; Job 3:10;...