thou knowest Rather, though thou knowest. All these suppositions are vain; for as to the first (Job 10:4), God knew that Job was guiltless, and as to the other, none could rescue from His hand. The suppositions are but a subtle mode of appealing from God to God Himself, from God's dealing in providence to God's inner heart and being.
Verse Job 10:7. _THOU KNOWEST THAT I AM NOT WICKED_] While thou hast this knowledge of me and my conduct, why appear to be sifting me as if in order to find out sin; and though none can be found, trea...
THOU KNOWEST THAT I AM NOT WICKED - That is, that I am not a hypocrite, or an impenitent sinner. Job did not claim perfection (see the note at Job 9:20), but he maintained through all this argument th...
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...
WICKED. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44....
DISCOURSE: 461 CONSCIOS INTEGRITY Job 10:7. _Thou knowest that I am not wicked_. PAINFUL as the consideration of God’s omniscience must be to the wicked, it is a rich source of consolation to those w...
THOU KNOWEST THAT I AM NOT WICKED— _Flagitious._ Houbigant. _Guilty of atrocious and enormous crimes._ It would be injurious to the character of Job, says Mr. Peters, should we interpret in a severe a...
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...
_THOU KNOWEST THAT I AM NOT WICKED; AND THERE IS NONE THAT CAN DELIVER OUT OF THINE HAND._ Thou (the Omniscient) knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand; th...
THOU] RV 'although thou.' 8-17. Job dwells on God's past goodness. Does he not owe to Him his existence and his preservation up to the present? Yet He had apparently purposed all along to destroy him...
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 knew that God is not like a man. But in these verses, Job realised that God knows all about each person. God knows everything. So God knew Job’s character. This was a wonderful thing for Job to re...
THAT I AM NOT WICKED. — The meaning is rather, _that I shall not be found guilty._ It is not like the appeal of Peter (John 21:17). See the language borrowed by the Psalmist (Psalms 119:73)....
עַֽל ־דַּ֭עְתְּךָ כִּי ־לֹ֣א אֶרְשָׁ֑ע וְ אֵ֖
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...
Thou knowest that I am not (i) wicked; and [there is] none that can deliver out of thine hand. (i) By affliction you keep me as in a prison, and restrain me from doing evil, neither can any set me fr...
_Shouldst. Hebrew and Septuagint, "Thou knowest that....and there," &c. (Haydock) --- It would be vain for me to appeal to any other. (Calmet)_...
(7) Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand. When Job saith, as here, I am not wicked, we should compare it with what he had said before, in order to ap...
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...
THOU KNOWEST THAT I AM NOT WICKED,.... Or "in", or "upon thy knowledge a [it is] that I am not wicked"; it is a thing well known, quite clear, and manifest, without making such a search and inquiry: n...
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and [there is] none that can deliver out of thine hand. Ver. 7. _Thou knowest that I am not wicked_] A lewd liver, and a rank hypocrite, as these men would make of...
_That thou inquirest, &c., and searchest after my sin_ Keeping me so long upon the rack, to compel me to accuse myself. _Thou knowest I am not wicked_ That is a hypocrite, or an ungodly man, as my fri...
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...
Thou knowest that I am not wicked, rather, "although Thou knowest that I am not guilty"; AND THERE IS NONE THAT CAN DELIVER OUT OF THINE HAND; although He had all men absolutely in His power, He surel...
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...
THOU KNOWEST: _ Heb._ it is upon thy knowledge...
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...
I AM NOT WICKED, i.e. a hypocrite, or an ungodly man, as my friends account me; and therefore deal not with me as such. THERE IS NONE THAT CAN DELIVER OUT OF THINE HAND: the sense is, either, 1. Thou...
Job 10:7 know H1847 wicked H7561 (H8799) deliver H5337 (H8688) hand H3027 Thou knowest - Heb. It is upon thy knowledge,...
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...
_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...
_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...
1 Thessalonians 2:10; 2 Corinthians 1:12; Daniel 3:15; Deuteronomy 32:39;...
Wicked — An hypocrite, as my friends account me. Deliver — But thou art the supreme ruler of the world; therefore I must wait thy time, and throw myself on thy mercy, in submission to thy sovereign wi...