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Verse Job 10:19. _I SHOULD HAVE BEEN AS THOUGH_] Had I given up the
ghost as soon as born, as I could not then have been conscious of
existence, it would have been, as it respects myself, as though I...
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I SHOULD HAVE BEEN CARRIED FROM THE WOMB TO THE GRAVE - See the notes
at Job 3:16....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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....
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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...
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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....
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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...
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כַּ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא ־הָיִ֣יתִי אֶהְיֶ֑ה
מִ֝ בֶּ֗ט
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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;...
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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...
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I SHOULD HAVE BEEN AS THOUGH I HAD NOT BEEN,.... For though it cannot
be said absolutely of such an one, an abortive or untimely birth, that
it is a nonentity, or never existed; yet comparatively it i...
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I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been
carried from the womb to the grave.
Ver. 19. _I should have been as though I had not been_] Here he sings
the same song as Job 3:1-26 J...
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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...
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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...
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I SHOULD HAVE BEEN, or, _Oh that I had been_ ! and so in the following
branch, OH THAT I HAD BEEN CARRIED! For why should not these verbs of
the future tense be so rendered here, as that JOB 10:18 is,...
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Job 10:19 carried H2986 (H8714) womb H990 grave H6913
Psalms 58:8...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Psalms 58:8...