Job 6:10

Job 6:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
• New International Version (NIV)Then I would still have this consolation— my joy in unrelenting pain— that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.
• English Standard Version (ESV)This would be my comfort; I would even exult in pain unsparing, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then I would still have comfort; Though in anguish I would exult, He will not spare; For I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

Context of Job 6:10

8If only my request would be granted and God would provide what I hope for: 9that he would decide to crush me, to unleash his power and cut me off! It would still bring me comfort, and I would leap for joy in unrelenting pain that I have not denied the words of the Holy One. 11What strength do I have, that I should continue to hope? What is my future, that I should be patient? 12Is my strength that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?

Job 6:10 word by word

וּ֥תְהִי ע֨וֹד׀ נֶ֘חָ֤מָתִ֗י וַאֲסַלְּדָ֣ה בְ֭חִילָה לֹ֣א יַחְמ֑וֹל כִּי־לֹ֥א כִ֝חַ֗דְתִּי אִמְרֵ֥י קָדֽוֹשׁ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Then should I yet have comfortנֶחָמָהnechâmâh · comfortH5165
• yea, I would hardenסָלַדsâlad · to rejoiceH5539
• myself in sorrowחִילָהchîyl chîylâh · agonyH2427
• let him not spareחָמַלchâmal · to spareH2550
• for I have not concealedכָּחַדkâchad · to hideH3582
• the wordsאֵמֶר'êmer · wordH561
• of the Holy Oneקָדוֹשׁqâdôsh qâdôsh · holyH6918

Cross-references for Job 6:10

• Job 3:22who are filled with much joy and are glad when they reach the grave?
• Job 21:33The dirt on his grave is sweet to him. Everyone follows behind him, and those who go before him are without number.
• Job 9:4God is wise and all-powerful. Who has opposed him and come out unharmed?
• Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, his anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The Lord will blot out his name under heaven,
• Romans 8:32He did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything?
• 2 Peter 2:4For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but cast them into hell and delivered them in chains of utter darkness to be kept for judgment;
• Job 23:12I have not departed from the commands from his lips; I have treasured the words from his mouth more than my daily food.
• Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom; his tongue speaks what is just.
• Psalms 40:9I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; see, I do not keep my mouth closed — as you know, Lord.
• Psalms 71:17God, you have taught me from my youth, and I still proclaim your wondrous works.
• Psalms 119:13With my lips I proclaim all the judgments from your mouth.
• Acts 20:20You know that I did not hesitate to proclaim anything to you that was profitable and to teach you publicly and from house to house.
• Leviticus 19:2“Speak to the entire Israelite community and tell them: Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.
• 1 Samuel 2:2There is no one holy like the Lord. There is no one besides you! And there is no rock like our God.
• Isaiah 30:11Get out of the way! Leave the pathway. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel.”
• Isaiah 57:15For the High and Exalted One, who lives forever, whose name is holy, says this: “I live in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the oppressed.

Commentaries on Job 6:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Then should I yet have comfort - Instead of עוד od, Yet, three of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS. have זאת zoth, This. And This should be my comfort. The expectation that he will speedily make an end of me would cause me to rejoice with great joy. This reading is supported by the Vulgate and the Chaldee. I would harden myself in sorrow - To know that I should shortly have an end put to my miseries would cause me to endure the present with determinate…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Then should I yet have comfort - Dr. Good renders this, “then would I already take comfort.” Noyes, “yet it should still be my consolation.” The literal sense is, “and there would be to me yet consolation;” or “my consolation would yet be.” That is, he would find comfort in the grave (compare Job 3:13 ff), or in the future world. I would harden myself in sorrow - Dr. Good renders this, “and I will leap for joy.” In a similar way Noyes renders it, “I would…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-13Verses 8-13 Job had desired death as the happy end of his miseries. For this, Eliphaz had reproved him, but he asks for it again with more vehemence than before. It was very rash to speak thus of God destroying him. Who, for one hour, could endure the wrath of the Almighty, if he let loose his hand against him? Let us rather say with David, O spare me a little. Job grounds his comfort upon the testimony of his conscience, that he had been, in some degree…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-30Job responds by criticizing his counselors and questioning God (chapters 6 and 7). He explains his intense words by indicating his deep "grief" or "anguish" (6:2–3; 7:11). Job states that Eliphaz has not provided comfort or sympathy as a friend. Instead, Eliphaz chose to argue about out of date religious or theological ideas.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. I would harden myself in sorrow--rather, "I would exult in the pain," if I knew that that pain would hasten my death [Gesenius]. Umbreit translates the Hebrew of "Let Him not spare," as "unsparing"; and joins it with "pain." concealed--I have not disowned, in word or deed, the commands of the Holy One (Psa 119:46; Ac 20:20). He says this in answer to Eliphaz' insinuation that he is a hypocrite. God is here called "the Holy One," to imply man's…Read the comment

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In the dictionaries

• Holy One
• Arguing
• Arrow
• Conceal
• Harden
• Sorrowful
• Terror
• Job, Book of
• Papyrus
• exult, exultant

Commentaries on Job 6

• 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
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings