Job 10:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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; ”

• Job 10:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  If I be wicked, woe unto me - The meaning of this in this connection is, “I am full of perplexity and sorrow. Whether I am wicked or righteous, I find no comfort. Whatever is my character, my eff...

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• Job 10:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  If I be wicked, woe unto me; and [if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not (p) lift up my head. [I am] full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; (p) I will always walk in fear and humility,...

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• Job 10:15 - 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 10:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  confusion. Hebrew. kalon = shame. First occurrence.

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• Job 10:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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; If I be wicked - I must meet with that punishment...

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• Job 10:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  If I be wicked, woe unto me! &c.— i.e. "I cannot, will not hope for any temporal deliverance upon account of my righteousness, as you, my friends, are endeavouring to persuade me, from a mistak...

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• Job 10:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. If I sin, then thou markest me. Job is perplexed because God "marks" every sin of his with such ceaseless rigou...

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• Job 10:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Second Speech (concluded) 1-7. Job seeks the reason of his trial, and protests against God's treatment as inconsistent with the natural relations between Creator and created, and with God's...

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• Job 10:15 - 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 10:15 - 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 10:15 - 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 10:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (14) В¶ If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. (15) 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...

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• Job 10:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  If I be wicked, woe is me ,.... In this world, and to all eternity; afflictions will abide me here, and everlasting wrath hereafter: these are the woes that belong to a wicked man; that is, a profan...

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• Job 10:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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; Ver. 15. If I be wicked, woe unto me ] Here he...

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• Job 10:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If I be wicked That is, an ungodly hypocrite, as my friends esteem me; wo unto me I am truly and extremely miserable; and, if I continue wicked, must be eternally so. And if I be righteous An u...

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• Job 10:15 - 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 10:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.   15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of...

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• Job 10:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  If I be wicked, i.e. an ungodly hypocrite, as my friends esteem me, then I am truly and extremely, and must be eternally, miserable. Righteous, i.e. an upright and good man: so, whether good or b...

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• Job 10:15 - 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 10:15 - 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 10:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Is it good unto Thee that Thou shouldest oppress? Job’s mistaken views of his sufferings I. As inconsistent with all his ideas of his Maker. 1. As inconsistent with His goodness. “Is it good...

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• Job 10:15 - 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 10:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Renews his Complaint of his Affliction

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• Job 10:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 3:7 ; Isaiah 3:11 ; Isaiah 6:5 ; Isaiah 64:5 ; Isaiah 64:6 ; Job 10:7 ; Job 21:6 ; Job 23:15 ; Job 27:7 ; Job 9:12 ; Job 9:15 ; Job 9:20 ; Job 9:21 ; Job 9:29 ; Lamentations 1:2...

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• Job 10:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Wicked — An hypocrite, as my friends esteem me. Righteous — An upright man; so whether good or bad, all comes to one. Yet — Yet I have no comfort, or hopes of any good. Confusion — I am confounded...

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