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

8Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! 9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! 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. 11What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? 12Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?

Job 6:10 word by word

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

• 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 3:22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
• Job 21:33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
• Job 9:4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
• Deuteronomy 29:20Yhwh will not spare him, but then the anger of Yhwh and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and Yhwh shall blot out his name from under heaven.
• Romans 8:32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
• 2 Peter 2:4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
• Job 23:12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
• Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
• Psalms 40:9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Yhwh, thou knowest.
• Psalms 71:17O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
• Psalms 119:13With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
• Acts 20:20And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,
• Leviticus 19:2Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I Yhwh your God am holy.
• 1 Samuel 2:2There is none holy as Yhwh: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
• Isaiah 30:11Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
• Isaiah 57:15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

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