George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 10:21
Death, to the grave, or to hell, (Calmet) if my sins deserve it. (Haydock)
Death, to the grave, or to hell, (Calmet) if my sins deserve it. (Haydock)
Verse Job 10:21. _I SHALL NOT RETURN_] I shall not return again from the _dust_ to have a dwelling among _men_. _TO THE LAND OF DARKNESS_] Job 3:5. There are here a crowd of obscure and dislocated t...
BEFORE I GO - from where “I shall not return.” To the grave, to the land of shades, to “That undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveler returns.” TO THE LAND OF DARKNESS - This passage is 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...
OF DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW. deep darkness. Figure of speech _Hendiadys._ Not two things, but one. DARKNESS. Hebrew. _hashak._ See note on Job 3:6....
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...
_BEFORE I GO WHENCE I SHALL NOT RETURN, EVEN TO THE LAND OF DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH;_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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 had some wrong ideas about death. He thought only about the death of the body. He saw how dead bodies slowly disappear into the earth. Nobody can disturb a person who has died. But Job did not th...
בְּ טֶ֣רֶם אֵ֭לֵךְ וְ לֹ֣א אָשׁ֑וּב אֶל
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...
Before I go [whence] I shall not (t) return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; (t) He speaks this in the person of a sinner, that is overcome with passions and with the feeling...
(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...
BEFORE I GO [WHENCE] I SHALL NOT RETURN,.... Before he went out of the world, the way of all flesh, to the grave, his long home, from whence there is no return to this world, and to the business and a...
Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; Ver. 21. _Before I go whence I shall not return_] Before I go out of this world, never more to return...
_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...
before I go whence I shall not return, or, "go hence and return not," EVEN TO THE LAND OF DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH;...
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...
Job's feelings regarding death up to this point have been depressing (Job 3:21; Job 7:21; Job 10:21-22). Notice the expression, "without order", "chaos reigns in Sheol as well as on earth. This presen...
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 THE PLACE WHENCE I SHALL NOT RETURN into this world and life: see JOB 7:9,10. DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH, i.e. a dark and dismal shade: SEE POOLE ON "JOB 3:5"....
Job 10:21 go H3212 (H8799) return H7725 (H8799) land H776 darkness H2822 death H6757 I go whence -...
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—NOTE ON JOB 10:21 Job repeatedly describes death as DARKNESS and SHADOW. The adjectives (THICK, DEEP) underscore his plea to be released from suff
_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...
2 Samuel 12:23; 2 Samuel 14:14; Isaiah 38:11; Jeremiah 2:6; Job 14:1