Berean Standard Bible
Job 10
1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?4Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?5Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,6that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me.Would You now turn and destroy me?9Please remember that You molded me like clay.Would You now return me to dust?10Did You not pour me out like milk,and curdle me like cheese?11You clothed me with skin and flesh,and knit me together with bones and sinews.12You have granted me life and loving devotion,1and Your care has preserved my spirit.
13Yet You concealed these things in Your heart,and I know that this was in Your mind:14If I sinned, You would take note,and would not acquit me of my iniquity.15If I am guilty, woe to me!And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head.I am full of shameand aware of my affliction.16Should I hold my head high,You would hunt me like a lion,and again display Your power against me.17You produce new witnesses against meand multiply Your anger toward me.Hardships assault mein wave after wave.
18Why then did You bring me from the womb?Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!19If only I had never come to be,but had been carried from the womb to the grave.20Are my days not few?Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,21before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,22to a land of utter darkness,of deep shadow and disorder,where even the light is like darkness.”
Notes
- 1. Job 10:12 Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant. ↩
Commentaries on Job 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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