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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)At least I can take comfort in this: Despite the pain, I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Context of Job 6:10

8“Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for, 9that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut off my life! Then I would still have this consolation— my joy in unrelenting pain— that I had not denied the words of the Holy One. 11“What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient? 12Do I have the strength of stone? Is my flesh 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 gladness and rejoice when they reach the grave?
• Job 21:33The soil in the valley is sweet to them; everyone follows after them, and a countless throng goes before them.
• Job 9:4His wisdom is profound, his power is vast. Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?
• Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will never be willing to forgive them; his wrath and zeal will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from under heaven.
• Romans 8:32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
• 2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
• Job 23:12I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.
• Psalms 37:30The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom, and their tongues speak what is just.
• Psalms 40:9I proclaim your saving acts in the great assembly; I do not seal my lips, Lord, as you know.
• Psalms 71:17Since my youth, God, you have taught me, and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.
• Psalms 119:13With my lips I recount all the laws that come from your mouth.
• Acts 20:20You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house.
• Leviticus 19:2“Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: ‘Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.
• 1 Samuel 2:2“There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.
• Isaiah 30:11Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!”
• Isaiah 57:15For this is what the high and exalted One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.

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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• Afflictions and Adversities
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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