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Job 10:2
2This is what I will say to God: “Do not say that I am guilty. Tell me what bad things you think I have done.
Job 10:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
- New International Version (NIV)I say to God: Do not declare me guilty, but tell me what charges you have against me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; Show me why You contend with me.
Context of Job 10:2
1I do not want to live any longer. I must continue to complain. I am very upset and I have to speak about it. This is what I will say to God: “Do not say that I am guilty. Tell me what bad things you think I have done. 3Your own hands created me. So you should not be cruel to me. It is not right. Instead, you are kind to wicked people. You help them to do the bad things that they want to do. 4Do you see things as people see them? Are your eyes only like human eyes?
Read all of Job 10Job 10:2 word by word
אֹמַ֣ר אֶל־אֱ֭לוֹהַּ אַל־תַּרְשִׁיעֵ֑נִי הֽ֝וֹדִיעֵ֗נִי עַ֣ל מַה־תְּרִיבֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 10:2
- Psalms 6:1Lord, when you are angry, please do not punish me.
- Psalms 25:7Do not punish me for the sins that I did long ago. When I was young, I turned against you. Please be kind to me, because of your faithful love!
- Psalms 38:1Lord, when you are angry, please do not punish me.
- Psalms 109:21You, Almighty Lord, must help me! Show that your name is great. Rescue me, because your faithful love is good.
- Psalms 143:2Do not judge me, your servant. Nobody is righteous when they stand in front of you.
- Romans 8:1Now we know this: God has forgiven those people who are united with Christ Jesus. God will never say that they are guilty.
- Job 8:5But you should pray to Almighty God. You should ask him to help you.
- Job 34:31Someone could say to God, “I am guilty, and I have received my punishment. But I will not do any more wrong things.
- Psalms 139:23Please God, look deep inside me. See what is there in my thoughts.
- Lamentations 3:40Instead, we should think a lot about what we do, and we should turn back to the Lord again.
- Lamentations 5:16And we have no king in Jerusalem any longer. We have sinned, so it will be very bad for us.
- 1 Corinthians 11:31But if we think carefully about ourselves, then God will not need to punish us.
Commentaries on Job 10:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Do not condemn me - Let me not be afflicted in thy wrath. Show me wherefore thou contendest - If I am afflicted because of my sins, show me what that sin is. God never afflicts but for past sin, or to try his followers; or for the greater manifestation of his grace in their support and deliverance.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me - Do not hold me to be wicked - תרשׁיעני אל 'al tarshı̂y‛ēnı̂y The sense is, “Do not simply hold me to be wicked, and treat me as such, without showing me the reasons why I am so regarded.” This was the ground of Job‘s complaint, that God by mere sovereignty and power held him to be a wicked man, and that he did not see the reasons why he was so considered and treated. He now desired to know in what he had offended…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. show me, &c.--Do not, by virtue of Thy mere sovereignty, treat me as guilty without showing me the reasons.Read the comment
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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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