Tree of Life Version
Job 10:2
2I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with 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.
- 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
1“I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak out of the bitterness of my soul. I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with me.’ 3Is it good for You to oppress, to despise 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 human being 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 6:1For the music director, on the eight-string lyre, a psalm of David.
- Psalms 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellion. According to Your mercy remember me, for the sake of Your goodness, Adonai.
- Psalms 38:1A psalm of David, for a memorial.
- Psalms 109:21But You, Adonai my Lord, deal with me for Your Name’s sake. Because Your lovingkindness is good, deliver me.
- Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for in Your eyes no one living is righteous.
- Romans 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Messiah Yeshua.
- Job 8:5If you would seek God and plead with Shaddai,
- Job 34:31“Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have born chastisement, but I will not act wickedly any more.
- Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart. Examine me, and know my anxious thoughts,
- Lamentations 3:40Let us examine and test our ways, and let us return to Adonai.
- Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Oy to us, for we have sinned!
- 1 Corinthians 11:31For if we were judging ourselves thoroughly, we wouldn’t be coming under 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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