Job 10:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ My soul is wearya of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. ”

• Job 10:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  My soul is weary of my life - compare the note at Job 7:16 . The margin here is, Or,” cut off while I live.” The meaning in the margin is in accordance with the interpretation of Schultens. The...

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• Job 10:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  My soul is (a) weary of my life; I will leave my (b) complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. (a) I am more like a dead man, than to one that lives. (b) I will make an ampl...

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• Job 10:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's tone becomes sharper. He accuses God of having created him only to torment him. What profit is there to God in destroying the work that has cost Him so much pains? ( Job 10:3 )? Is God short-si...

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• Job 10:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13. life. Hebrew. chayai. leave . let go, let loose: i.e. tell forth, give vent to. complaint . complaining. upon . about.

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• Job 10:1 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 460 IMPATIENCE REPROVED Job 10:1 . My soul is weary of my life . LIFE is justly esteemed a blessing: and we are properly taught in the Liturgy to thank God, as well for our creation,...

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• Job 10:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. My soul is weary of my life - Here is a proof that נפש nephesh does not signify the anim...

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• Job 10:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Job expostulates with God concerning his afflictions: he complains of life, but wishes for a little ease before his death. Before Christ 1645. Job 10:1 . I will leave my complaint upon m...

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• Job 10:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. I will leave my complaint upon myself - rather, 'I will give loose to my complai...

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• Job 10:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  I will leave, etc.] RV 'I will give free course to my complaint.'

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• Job 10:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I will leave. — Or, according to some, I will give free vent to the complaint that is upon me. (Comp. Job 9:27 of the last chapter)

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• Job 10:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  X. THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN Job 9:1-35 ; Job 10:1-22 Job SPEAKS IT is with an infinitely sad restatement of what God has been made to appear to him by Bildad's speech that Job begins his reply...

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• Job 10:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Soul Bitterness Job 10:1-22 In this chapter Job accuses God of persecuting His own workmanship, Job 20:3 ; of pursuing him with repeated strokes, as if he had not time enough to wait between t...

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• Job 10:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Notwithstanding all this, Job appealed to God. Turning from his answer to Bildad, he poured out his agony as in the presence of the Most High. It was by no means a hopeful appeal, but it was an appea...

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• Job 10:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  CONTENTS Job continueth in a voice of complaint through this Chapter. He seems to express himself, as one so borne down with sorrow that he knows not what he sayeth. He pleads hard with God, for a l...

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• Job 10:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  My soul is weary of my life ,.... And yet nothing of a temporal blessing is more desirable than life; every man, generally speaking, is desirous of life, and of a long life too; soul and body are ne...

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• Job 10:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. Ver. 1. My soul is weary of my life ] Because it is a lifeless life. Mortis habet vi...

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• Job 10:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  My soul is weary of my life My soul is weary of dwelling in this rotten and miserable body; or, I am, from my heart or soul, weary of my life. Sol. Jarchi's comment is, My soul loathes itself beca...

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• Job 10:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  AN ATTEMPT TO REASON WITH GOD (vv.1-22) Since there was no mediator, Job in this chapter (from verse 2 on) directs all of his words directly to God, reasoning with Him as regards why God should...

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• Job 10:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job's Reply to Bildad. B. C. 1520.       1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my compla...

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• Job 10:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  JOB CHAPTER 10 His life a burden; his complaint that he could not see the cause or end of God's punishment: God delighteth not to oppress; nor was his innocence, though suspected by men, hid from G...

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• Job 10:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD—CONTINUED His speech takes the form rather of an expostulation with God in regard to his afflictions. The vehemence of his spirit reaches its height in this chapter. Does n...

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• Job 10:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 10:1 . I will leave my complaint upon myself. These words seem to imply, that he would bear his complaint in silence; but it immediately follows, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. O...

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• Job 10:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

  My soul is weary of my life. On the causes of men’s being weary of life A sentiment which surely, if any situation can justify it, was allowable in the case of Job. Let us examine in what circu...

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• Job 10:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 10:1-18 Having answered Bildad, Job proceeds to pour out the bitterness of his soul in a pathetic complaint, which he addresses directly to God. There is not much that is nov...

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• Job 10:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  My soul is weary of my life, filled with disgust and loathing; I will leave my complaint upon myself, giving free course to his sorrowful statement; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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• Job 10:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 19:4 ; Isaiah 38:15 ; Isaiah 38:17 ; Job 10:15 ; Job 10:16 ; Job 14:13 ; Job 16:6-16 ; Job 19:4 ; Job 21:2-4 ; Job 3:20-23 ; Job 5:15 ; Job 5:16 ; Job 5:20 ; Job 6:2-4 ; Job 6:...

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• Job 10:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Shall I — Shall I give over complaining?

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