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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Job 10:3

Calumniate permissively, by treating me in such a manner, that others lay false crimes to my charge. Hebrew, "oppress and despise the work." --- Wicked, who are ready enough (Haydock) to assert that virtue is useless, (Calmet) and that God mindeth not human affairs. My affliction will confirm them in their false notion, (Haydock) and my friends will triumph as if their arguments were well founded. The devil will also exult. (Calmet) --- He knew that God could not be guilty of calumny, and inquireth why he is afflicted. (Worthington)

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See also Job 10:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 10:3. IS IT _GOOD UNTO THEE_] Surely it can be no gratification to thee to distress the children of men, as if thou didst despise the work of thy own hands. _AND SHINE UPON THE COUNSEL_] F...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IS IT GOOD UNTO THEE THAT THOU SHOULDEST OPPRESS - The sense of this is, that it could not be with God a matter of personal gratification to inflict pain wantonly. There must be a reason why he did it...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HANDS. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. Compare Psalms 119:73; Psalms 138:8, and Psalms 139:5; Psalms 139:10. wicked

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _is it good unto thee_ The usual meaning of the phrase is, Is it thy pleasure, does it seem right to thee? Deuteronomy 23:17. The words might also mean, Is it becoming thee? Exodus 14:12. The former s...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THAT THOU SHOULDEST DESPISE, &C.— _That thou shouldest hate or destroy the work of thine hands, and give countenance to,_ or _favour the counsel of the wicked?_ Houbigant and Heath....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _IS IT GOOD UNTO THEE THAT THOU SHOULDEST OPPRESS, THAT THOU SHOULDEST DESPISE THE WORK OF THINE HANDS, AND SHINE UPON THE COUNSEL OF THE WICKED?_ Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, th...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    10:3 please (c-3) Or 'Is it meet for.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WORK OF THINE HANDS] i.e. man, God's creature. 4-6. 'Is God's judgment liable to mistakes like that of frail man' (EYES OF FLESH), 'or is His time so short that He is in a hurry to find Job guilt...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God created Job’s body. So Job was God’s ‘own work’. But now God seemed to oppose Job. And God seemed to help wicked men. This did not seem sensible to Job. But Job did not have any other explanation....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ טֹ֤וב לְךָ֨ ׀ כִּֽי ־תַעֲשֹׁ֗ק כִּֽי ־תִ֭מ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    [Is it] (d) good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the (e) work of thine hands, and shine upon the (f) counsel of the wicked? (d) Is it agreeable to your justice to d...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (3) Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? (4) Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man s...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    [IS IT] GOOD UNTO THEE THAT THOU SHOULDEST OPPRESS?.... This God does not approve of in others; he dehorts men from it; he threatens to punish those that do so, and to be a swift witness against them;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Job 10:3 [Is it] good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? Ver. 3. _Is it good unto thee that thou sho...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Is it good unto thee?_ Dost thou take any pleasure in it, _that those shouldest oppress?_ By thy absolute and irresistible power, without regard to that justice and clemency by which thou usest to go...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Is it good unto Thee that Thou shouldest oppress, that Thou shouldest despise the work of Thine hands and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? Surely God would not take pleasure, find joy, in cruelly...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THE WORK OF THINE HANDS?: _ Heb._ the labour of thine hands...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "IS IT RIGHT": Implying that it was wrong for God to afflict Job, His own creation, while favoring the wicked. "Is God enjoying the cat and mouse game? Is He like. capricious potter who makes pots jus...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 Job, being weary of his life, resolves to complain, but he will not charge God with unrighteousness. Here is a prayer that he might be delivered from the sting of his afflictions, which is sin. W...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Dost thou take any pleasure in it? Hast thou any advantage or honour by it? Dost thou think it right and just, and becoming the Ruler of the world? THAT THOU SHOULDEST OPPRESS, by thy absolute and irr...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 10:3 good H2895 (H8804) oppress H6231 (H8799) despise H3988 (H8799) work H3018 hands H3709 smile...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 10:3 Job’s awareness that he is THE WORK OF God’s HANDS provides the theme for the verses that follow. ⇐

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 4:19; Isaiah 64:8; Jeremiah 12:1; Job 14:15; Job 34:18;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Good — Dost thou take any pleasure in it? Far be it from Job, to think that God did him wrong. But he is at a loss to reconcile his providences with his justice. And so other good men have often been,...

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