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Verse Job 10:20. ARE _NOT MY DAYS FEW?_] My life cannot be long; let
me have a little respite before I die....
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ARE NOT MY DAYS FEW? - My life is short, and hastens to a close. Let
not then my afflictions be continued to the last moment of life, but
let thine hand be removed, that I may enjoy some rest before I...
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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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ARE NOT. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
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He begs for a little easing of his pain ere he departs to the land of
darkness.
_are not my days few_ The same argument as ch. Job 7:16.
_cease then, and let me alone_ Another reading is, _let him c...
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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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_ARE NOT MY DAYS FEW? CEASE THEN, AND LET ME ALONE, THAT I MAY TAKE
COMFORT A LITTLE,_
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take
comfort a little. But, since I was destined f...
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10:20 revive (f-15) Or 'brighten up,' as ch. 9. 27....
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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, 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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Job knew that all life comes from God (Acts 17:28). Without God, Job
would die. So Job prayed that God would leave him. Then, Job’s
troubles would end for a brief moment. And so Job would die....
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CEASE THEN, AND LET ME ALONE. — According to another reading, “Let
him cease, and let me alone.” In reading this reply of Job’s, one
cannot but feel that it moves upon the very verge of blasphemy, and...
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הֲ לֹא ־מְעַ֣ט יָמַ֣י _וַ_†_חֲדָ֑ל_†
_וְ_†_שִׁ֥ית_
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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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_Lament. Hebrew, "take comfort," (Haydock) or breath. (Calmet) ---
Repentance is always necessary, but more particularly at the hour of
death. (Worthington)_...
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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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[ARE] NOT MY DAYS FEW?.... They are so, the days of every man are but
few; see Job 14:1; the remainder of Job's days were but few;
considering the course of nature, and especially the sore afflictions...
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Job 10:20 [Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone, that
I may take comfort a little,
Ver. 20. _Are not my days few?_] And oh that they might not be also
evil! since I shall not much tro...
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_Are not my days few? Cease then_, &c. My life is short, and of itself
hastens to an end; there is no need that thou shouldest grudge me some
ease for so small a moment. _Let me alone_ Or lay aside, o...
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Are not my days few? Was not the time of his life short enough? Could
not God take from him some of the burden which was weighting him down?
CEASE, THEN, AND LET ME ALONE, turning His attention elsewh...
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JOB RENEWS HIS COMPLAINT OF HIS AFFLICTION...
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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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"Because God had not let him be. miscarriage or. stillbirth, he longed
for. little peace before death. If God would only let him alone so he
could be cheerful" _(Zuck p. 52)._ "How thankful he should...
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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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My life is short, and of itself hastens apace to an end; there is no
need that thou shouldst push it forward, or grudge me some ease for so
small a moment. LET ME ALONE; or, _lay aside_, or _remove_,...
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Job 10:20 days H3117 few H4592 Cease H2308 (H8798) (H8675) H2308
(H8799) alone H7896 (H8
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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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Job 13:21; Job 14:1; Job 7:16; Job 7:17; Job 7:6;...
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Cease — My life is short, and of itself hastens to an end, there is
no need that thou shouldest grudge me some ease for so small a moment....