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Job 10:2
2I say to God: Do not declare me guilty, but tell me what charges you have against me.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I will say to God, ‘Don’t simply condemn me— tell me the charge you are bringing against me.
Context of Job 10:2
1“I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul. I say to God: Do not declare me guilty, but tell me what charges you have against me. 3Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the plans of the wicked? 4Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as a mortal sees?
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, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
- Psalms 25:7Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good.
- Psalms 38:1Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
- Psalms 109:21But you, Sovereign Lord, help me for your name’s sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.
- Psalms 143:2Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you.
- Romans 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
- Job 8:5But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty,
- Job 34:31“Suppose someone says to God, ‘I am guilty but will offend no more.
- Psalms 139:23Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
- Lamentations 3:40Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.
- Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
- 1 Corinthians 11:31But if we were more discerning with regard to ourselves, we would not come under such judgment.
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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