Job 10
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Job makes complaint about his hardships
Verse 1
WEB “My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
KJV My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
TSK My soul: job 3:20-23, job 6:8,9, job 5:15,16,20, job 9:21, job 14:13, nu 11:15, 1ki 19:4, jon 4:3,8; I will leave: job 7:11, job 19:4, job 21:2-4; I will speak: job 10:15,16, job 6:2-4,26, job 7:11, job 16:6-16, ps 32:3-5, isa 38:15,17
Verse 2
WEB I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
KJV I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me wherefore thou contendest with me.
TSK Do not: ps 6:1-4, ps 25:7, ps 38:1-8, ps 109:21, ps 143:2, ro 8:1; shew me: job 8:5,6, job 34:31,32, ps 139:23,24, la 3:40-42, la 5:16,17, 1co 11:31,32
Verse 3
WEB Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
KJV Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
TSK Is it good: job 34:5-7,18,19, job 36:7-9,17,18, job 40:2,8, la 3:2-18; despise: ps 69:33; the work: job 14:15, job 34:19, ps 138:8, isa 64:8, 1pe 4:19; shine upon: job 8:20, jer 12:1-3
Verse 5
WEB Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,
KJV Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
TSK Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,: ps 90:2-4, ps 102:12,24-27, heb 1:12, 2pe 3:8
Verse 6
WEB that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
KJV That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
TSK That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?: job 10:14-17, ps 10:15, ps 44:21, jer 2:34, zep 1:12, joh 2:24,25, 1co 4:5
Verse 7
WEB Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
KJV Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
TSK Thou knowest: job 23:10, job 31:6,14,35, job 42:7, ps 1:6, ps 7:3,8,9, ps 17:3, ps 26:1-5, ps 139:1,2,21-24, joh 21:17, 2co 1:12, 1th 2:10; and there: job 23:13,14, de 32:39, ps 50:22, da 3:15, ho 2:10, joh 10:28-30
He makes earnest words with God as his Maker
Verse 8
WEB “‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.
KJV Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
TSK hands: ps 119:73, isa 43:7; yet thou: job 10:3, ge 6:6,7, jer 18:3-10
Verse 9
WEB Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
KJV Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
TSK Remember: job 7:7, ps 25:6,7,18, ps 89:47, ps 106:4; thou hast: ge 2:7, ge 3:19, isa 45:9, isa 64:8, jer 18:6; into dust again: job 17:14, ps 22:15, ps 90:3, ec 12:7, ro 9:21
Verse 10
WEB Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
KJV Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
TSK poured: ps 139:14-16
Verse 11
WEB You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
KJV Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
TSK clothed: 2co 5:2,3; fenced: job 40:17,18, eze 37:4-8, eph 4:16
Verse 12
WEB You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
KJV Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
TSK life and favour: ge 19:19, mt 6:25, ac 17:25,28
He makes complaint about God's severity
Verse 15
WEB If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
KJV If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
TSK If I be wicked: job 10:7, job 9:29, job 27:7, ps 9:17, isa 3:11, isa 6:5, mal 3:18, ro 2:8,9; righteous: job 9:12,15,20,21, isa 64:5,6, lu 17:10; I am full: job 21:6, job 23:15; see: ex 3:7, ps 25:18, ps 119:153, la 1:20, la 5:1-22
Verse 17
WEB You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
KJV Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
TSK witnesses: job 16:8, ru 1:21; changes: ps 55:19, jer 48:11, zep 1:12; war: job 16:11-16, job 19:6-11
Verse 18
WEB “‘Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
KJV Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
TSK hast thou: job 3:10,11, jer 15:10, jer 20:14-18, mt 26:24; given up: job 11:20, job 14:10
Verse 19
WEB I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
KJV I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
TSK I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.: ps 58:8
Verse 20
WEB Aren’t my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
KJV Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
TSK my days few: job 7:6,7,16, job 8:9, job 9:25,26, job 14:1, ps 39:5, ps 103:15,16; cease: job 7:17-21, job 13:21, ps 39:13
Verse 21
WEB before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
KJV Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
TSK I go whence: job 7:8-10, job 14:10-14, 2sa 12:23, 2sa 14:14, isa 38:11; the land: job 3:5, ps 88:6,11,12; the shadow: job 3:5, ps 23:4, jer 2:6
Verse 22
WEB the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”
KJV A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
TSK the shadow of death: job 3:5, job 34:22, job 38:17, ps 23:4, ps 44:19, ps 88:12, jer 2:6, jer 13:16, lu 16:26