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Verse Job 10:16. _FOR IT INCREASETH._] Probably this refers to the
_affliction_ mentioned above, which is increased in proportion to its
duration. Every day made his escape from such a load of evils l...
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FOR IT INCREASETH - Our translators understand this as meaning that
the calamities of Job, so far from becoming less, were constantly
increasing, and thus augmenting his perplexity and embarrassment....
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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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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...
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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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_FOR IT INCREASETH. THOU HUNTEST ME AS A FIERCE LION: AND AGAIN THOU
SHEWEST THYSELF MARVELLOUS UPON ME._
For it increaseth, х_ YIG'EH_ (H1342)] - literally, (my affliction,
Job 10:15) groweth up, as...
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10:16 increaseth. (e-3) Or 'if it riseth.'...
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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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FOR IT INCREASETH. — This verse is very obscure. Some understand it
thus: “But is it so glorious a thing that Thou shouldst hunt me like
a fierce lion, and then again show Thyself mysterious and wonde...
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וְ֭ יִגְאֶה כַּ † שַּׁ֣חַל
תְּצוּדֵ֑נִי וְ֝ תָשֹׁ֗ב
תִּתְפַּלָּא ־בִֽי׃...
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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 m...
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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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For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou
shewest thyself (q) marvellous upon me.
(q) Job being sore assaulted in this battle between the flesh and the
spirit, breaks out in...
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_Pride. If I give way to pride, thou wilt pull me down, though I were
as fierce and strong as a lioness. Hebrew, "for it (affliction)
increaseth. Thou huntest me." (Protestants) --- Returning. Hebrew...
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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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FOR IT INCREASETH,.... That is, the affliction increaseth; which is a
reason why pity should be shown him, seeing his troubles instead of
abating were growing upon him; he had as much, or more, than h...
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For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou
shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Ver. 16. _For it increaseth_] Heb. For it lifteth up itself; it even
boileth up to the height,...
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_Thou huntest me as a fierce lion_ Which hunteth after his prey with
eagerness, and, when he overtakes it, falls upon it with great fury.
_Again thou showest_ Hebrews ותשׁב תתפלא בי, _vetashob
tithpal...
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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 dea...
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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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AS A FIERCE LION; which hunteth after his prey with great eagerness,
and when he overtakes it, falls upon it with great fury. AND AGAIN
THOU SHOWEST THYSELF MARVELLOUS UPON ME, Heb. AND THOU RETURNEST...
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Job 10:16 exalted H1342 (H8799) hunt H6679 (H8799) lion H7826 again
H7725 (H8799) awesome H6381 (H8691)
Thou huntest - Isaiah 38:13; Lamentations 3:10; Hosea 13:7-8; Amos 3:8
marvellous -...
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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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_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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 10:15 Even if he is in the RIGHT (v. Job 10:15; see
also Job 9:15, Job 9:20), Job feels he has no strength to walk upright
because of the weight of his suffering (Job 10:15) and the th...
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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 lo...
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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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Amos 3:8; Deuteronomy 28:59; Hosea 13:7; Hosea 13:8; Isaiah 38:13;
Lamentations 3:10; Numbers 16:29; Numbers 16:30...
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Lion — Which hunteth after his prey with great eagerness, and when
he overtakes it, falls upon it with great fury. Returnest — The lion
tears its prey speedily, and so ends its torments; but thou rene...