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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 10:13

And these, etc.] RV 'Yet thou didst hide these things,' etc. I know that this is witii thee] rather, 'I know that these things were with thee.' Job concludes that even from his childhood God had purposed to afflict him, making him happy so that his misery might be deeper by contrast.

14, 15. Whether guilty or innocent he would be condemned.

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See also Job 10:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 10:13. _AND THESE_ THINGS _HAST THOU HID IN THINE HEART_] Thou hast had many gracious purposes concerning me which thou hast not made known; but thy visitations and mercy are sufficient proo...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THESE THINGS HAST THOU HID IN THINE HEART - This may either refer to the arrangements by which God had made him, or to the calamities which he had brought upon him. Most expositors suppose that th...

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and these things hast thou hid_ Better perhaps, BUT THESE THINGS DIDST THOU HIDE. _this_is _with thee_ Rather, THIS WAS WITH THEE, was thy purpose, and in thy thoughts, cf. ch. Job 9:35. "These thing...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The contradiction between this dealing with Job in the womb and since his birth and God's present treatment of him is only to be reconciled by the supposition that God's present severe treatment of Jo...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THESE THINGS HAST THOU HID IN THINE HEART— _And all the while didst thou treasure up these things in thy heart, I find by experience that this was thy purpose,_ Job 10:14. _That if I should sin, t...

  • 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

    _AND THESE THINGS HAST THOU HID IN THINE HEART: I KNOW THAT THIS IS WITH THEE._ _ AND THESE THINGS HAST THOU HID IN THINE HEART: I KNOW THAT THIS IS WITH THEE._ These things hast thou hid in thine he...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job suggested a more complex explanation. Perhaps God had a secret plan. Perhaps God wanted to prove that all people were evil. So God made Job. God watched Job’s actions. Job was much better than oth...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THESE THINGS HAST THOU HID IN THINE HEART. — Job implies that his sense of God’s goodness is embittered by the thought that while showing him such kindness, He had in reserve for him the trials and so...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ֭ אֵלֶּה צָפַ֣נְתָּ בִ לְבָבֶ֑ךָ יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי...

  • 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

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  • 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

    And these [things] hast thou hid in thine heart: I know (o) that this [is] with thee. (o) Though I am not fully able to comprehend these things, yet I must confess that it is so....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Rememberest. Septuagint, "canst do all things." Hebrew, "this is with thee." (Haydock) --- I am convinced that thou still regardest me with affection, though it would appear as if thou hadst forgotte...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (8) В¶ Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. (9) Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust agai...

  • 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

    AND THESE [THINGS] THOU HAST HID IN THINE HEART,.... Meaning, either the mercies and favours he had indulged him with; these he seemed to conceal and suppress the memory of, as if they had never been,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And these [things] hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this [is] with thee. Ver. 13. _And those things hast thou hid in thine heart_] _Legendum hoc cum stomacho,_ saith Mercer: And hast thou in...

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

    _These things hast thou hid in thy heart_ Both thy former favours and thy present frowns. Both are according to thy own will, and therefore undoubtedly consistent with each other, however they seem. W...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And these things hast Thou hid in Thine heart; I know that this is with Thee, that is: In spite of all God's care in the creation and preservation of Job, in spite of all His apparent kindness in the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB RENEWS HIS COMPLAINT OF HIS AFFLICTION...

  • 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

    The idea here may been that Job's present condition proves to Job that God has been concealing His true attitude toward him. Maybe God has had this affliction in mind all along. Has God simply been pr...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-13 Job seems to argue with God, as if he only formed and preserved him for misery. God made us, not we ourselves. How sad that those bodies should be instruments of unrighteousness, which are capab...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This place may be understood either, 1. Of Job's present afflictions. So the sense is this, Yet in the midst of all those manifestations of thy grace and kindness to me, thou didst retain a secret pu...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 10:13 hidden H6845 (H8804) heart H3824 know H3045 (H8804) hid - Job 23:9;...

  • 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

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 10:8 Job shares the wonder of the psalmist (Psalms 139:14) and the insight given to the prophet (Jeremiah 1:

  • 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

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Hid — Both thy former favours and thy present frowns. Both are according to thy own will, and therefore undoubtedly consistent, however they seem. When God does what we cannot account for, we are boun...

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