Job 10:13

_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 heart; I know that this is with thee - was thy purpose. All God's dealings with Job in his creation, preservation, and present afflictions were part of His secret counsel (Psalms 139:16); "Known unto God are all His works from the beginning" (Acts 15:18); "He hath set the world in His heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end" (Ecclesiastes 3:11)....

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 capable of being temples of the Holy Ghost! But the soul is the life, the soul is the man, and this is the gift of God. If we plead with ourselves as an inducement to duty, God made me and maintains me, we may plead as an argument for mercy, Thou hast made me, do thou new-make me; I am thine, save me....

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 proofs of kindness towards me; though for purposes unknown to me thou hast sorely afflicted me, and continuest to treat me as an enemy....

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 the latter is intended. Such is the opinion of Rosenmuller, Good, Noyes, and Scott. According to this the idea is, that God had purposed in his heart to bring these calamities upon him. They were a part of his counsel and design. To hide in the heart, or to lay up in the heart, is a phrase expressive of a secret purpose. I see no reason to confine it, however, to the calamities which Job had experienced. It may refer to all the plans and doings of the Most High, to which Job had just referred. All his acts in the creation and preservation of man, were a part of his secret counsel, He had formed the plan in his heart, and was now executing it in the various dispensations of his providence. I kn...

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 long expostulation, which mainly goes over ground covered in Job 3:1; Job 6:1; Job 7:1; but some new grounds are alleged as pleas for mercy, if not for justice. These are (1) that he is God's gesture, and in the past (at any rate) has been the object of his care (Job 7:3, J

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, by a different conduct and behaviour; or rather, these he had laid up in his mind and memory, and had full knowledge and remembrance of; though he dealt with him in the manner he did, he could not forget his former favours to him, which, when compared with his present dealings, were very unlike: or, it may be best to understand these things of his afflictions and troubles, which, notwithstanding his being the work of his hand so curiously formed, and notwithstanding all his temporal and spiritual mercies, he had in his heart purposed, and decreed in his mind, and laid up in his treasures, in order to be brought forth in due time, and to exercise him with; these were the things he had appoin...

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 weakness and the need of a daysman (Job 9:25) 5. Murmuring against God (Job 10:1) 6. Welcoming death (Job 10:18) Job 9:1. The final words of Bildad seemed to have had a momentary soothing

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-sighted, so that He sees faults where they do not exist (Job 10:4)? How can He be, when He is eternal (Job 10:5)? Yet He inquires after Job's sin, torturing to make him confess (Job 10:6 f.). Job reminds God how He has made him (Job 10:10 f. describes according to the poet's physiology the formation of the embryo; _cf._ Ps

_and these things hast thou hid_ Better perhaps, BUT THESE THINGS DIDST THOU HIDE. _this_is _with thee_ Rather, THIS WAS WITH THEE, was thy purpose, and in thy thoughts, cf. ch. Job 9:35. "These things" and "this" refer to the details about to be given (Job 10:14) of God's deep purpose cherished beforehand of plaguing Job....

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, thou wouldst observe me, and wouldst by no means acquit me from mine iniquity._ Schultens....