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

8“Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for! 9And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me. Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. 11What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life? 12Is my strength like that of stones? or is 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 rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?
• Job 21:33The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.
• Job 9:4He is wise in heart and mighty in strength – who has resisted him and remained safe?
• Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory.
• Romans 8:32Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?
• 2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment,
• Job 23:12I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my allotted portion.
• Psalms 37:30The godly speak wise words and promote justice.
• Psalms 40:9I have told the great assembly about your justice. Look! I spare no words! O Lord, you know this is true.
• Psalms 71:17O God, you have taught me since I was young, and I am still declaring your amazing deeds.
• Psalms 119:13With my lips I proclaim all the regulations you have revealed.
• Acts 20:20You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,
• Leviticus 19:2“Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them, ‘You must be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.
• 1 Samuel 2:2No one is holy like the Lord! There is no one other than you! There is no rock like our God!
• Isaiah 30:11Turn aside from the way, stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”
• Isaiah 57:15For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: “I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.

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