Job 10:1-22

Job, a servant of God

Job

Keith Simons

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Chapter 10

Job prays to God

Job prays, ‘Do not punish me’

v1 I do not want to live. So, I will complain. I will speak, because my spirit is sad.

v2 This is my prayer to God:

Do not punish me. Tell me why you accuse me. v3 Tell me why you oppose me. You seem to oppose your own work. But you allow the plans of wicked men to succeed. v4 You are not like a man. You can see things that we cannot see. v5 And you do not have a short life, like a man. v6 But you check my errors. And you discover my evil actions. v7 You know that I am not wicked. And nobody can rescue me from you.

Chapter 10

In this chapter, Job was not thinking about himself. Rather, he was thinking about God.

Job could not explain God’s attitudes. God carefully designed Job’s body. But now God seemed to be punishing Job without any reason.

In fact, as we saw in Job 1:8-12, God was not punishing Job. Really, God was proud of Job. The devil caused Job’s problems. But Job did not know this fact.