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Job 10:2

Do not condemn me Or, make me not guilty; that is, by mere arbitrary will. Job felt himself "made guilty" by his afflictions, which to all were proofs that God held him guilty.

thou contendest with me Job's afflictions were proof that God had a contention or plea against him, Job desires to know the ground of it. Perhaps the afflictions themselves may be called the contention.

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See also Job 10:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 10:2. _DO NOT CONDEMN ME_] Let me not be afflicted in thy wrath. _SHOW ME WHEREFORE THOU CONTENDEST_] If I am afflicted because of my sins, show me what that sin is. God never afflicts but...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WILL SAY UNTO GOD, DO NOT CONDEMN ME - Do not hold me to be wicked - תרשׁיעני אל _'al_ _tarshı̂y‛ēnı̂y_. The sense is, “Do not simply hold me to be wicked, and treat me as such, without showing me...

  • 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...

  • 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

    _I WILL SAY UNTO GOD, DO NOT CONDEMN ME; SHEW ME WHEREFORE THOU CONTENDEST WITH ME._ Show me ... - Do not, by virtue of thy mere sovereignty, treat me as guilty, without showing me the reasons....

  • 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....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I WILL SAY UNTO GOD... — This is a model of prayer for all, combining the prayer of the publican (Luke 18:13), and a prayer for that light for which we long so earnestly in times of affliction and dar...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֹמַ֣ר אֶל ־אֱ֭לֹוהַּ אַל ־תַּרְשִׁיעֵ֑נִי הֹֽ֝ודִיעֵ֗נִי...

  • 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

    I will say unto God, Do not (c) condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. (c) He would not that God would proceed against him by his secret justice, but by the ordinary means that he pun...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Judgest. Hebrew, "contendest with me," as with an enemy? Is it to punish some fault, or only to make thy grace shine forth? (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) В¶ My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. (2) I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _REMONSTRANCE WITH GOD_ ‘I will say unto God, etc.’ Job 10:2 I. AFTER THE AUDACIOUS WORDS AT THE CLOSE OF CHAPTER 9 JOB TURNS TO GOD IN THE VERY BITTERNESS OF HIS SOUL, and ‘Show me,’ he says, ‘whe...

  • 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

    I WILL SAY UNTO GOD, DO NOT CONDEMN ME,.... Not that he feared eternal condemnation; there is none to them that are in Christ, and believe in him as Job did; Christ's undertakings, sufferings, and dea...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. Ver. 2. _I will say unto God, do not condemn me_] You may say so as a humble suppliant, but not as holding yourself...

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

    _I will say unto God, Do not condemn me_ Hebrew, אל תרשׁיעני, _al tarshigneeni, Do not pronounce me to be a wicked man;_ as my friends do; neither deal with me as such, as I confess thou mightest do,...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I will say unto God, Do not condemn me, letting him die the death of a guilty person against the testimony of his conscience. SHOW ME WHEREFORE THOU CONTENDEST WITH ME, letting him know the definite c...

  • 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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "I WILL SAY TO GOD": This is what Job would say to God if given the chance, you might say he is rehearsing his speech. "LET ME KNOW WHY": He wants an answer. He would begin his speech with an outright...

  • 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

    DO NOT CONDEMN ME; or, _Pronounce me not to be a wicked man_, as my friends do; neither deal with me as such, as I confess thou mightest do by thy sovereign power and in rigorous justice. O discover m...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 10:2 say H559 (H8799) God H433 condemn H7561 (H8686) Show H3045 (H8685) contend H7378 (H8

  • 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

    _Do not condemn me._ THE CRY OF PENITENCE I. This is the language of a sincere penitent. It expresses a dread of condemnation, and a fear of future punishment. This impression is awakened by-- 1. T...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 10:1 As in Job 7:11, Job explicitly announces his turn to address his Creator directly. ⇐

  • 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 Corinthians 11:31; 1 Corinthians 11:32; Job 34:31; Job 34:32; Job

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Condemn — Or, pronounce me not to be a wicked man, neither deal with me as such, as I confess thou mightest do in rigorous justice: O discover my integrity by removing this stroke, for which my friend...

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