Job 10:2

I will say unto God... — This is a model of prayer for all, combining the prayer of the publican (Luke 18:13), and a prayer for that light for which we long so earnestly in times of affliction and darkness.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I 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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

I will say unto God, Do not (c) condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. (c) He would not that God would proceed against him by his se...
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 cos...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. Do not condemn me - Let me not be afflicted in thy wrath. Show me...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. Show me ... - Do not, by virtue of thy mere sovereignty, t...
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 rela...
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 t...
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 strok...
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(1) В¶ My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. (2) I will say unto God, Do not...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

REMONSTRANCE WITH GOD ‘I will say unto God, etc.’ Job 10:2 I. After the audacious words at the close of chapter 9 Job turns to God in the v...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I will say unto God, do not condemn me ,.... Not that he feared eternal condemnation; there is none to them that are in Christ, and believe in him a...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. Ver. 2. I will say unto God, do not condemn me ] You may say so...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me Hebrew, אל תרשׁיעני, al tarshigneeni, Do not pronounce me to be a wicked man; as my friends do; neither de...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Reply to Bildad. B. C. 1520. 1 M...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Do not condemn me; or, Pronounce me not to be a wicked man , as my friends do; neither deal with me as such, as I confess thou mightest do by thy...
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...
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 follo...
The Biblical Illustrator

Do not condemn me. The cry of penitence I. This is the language of a sincere penitent. It expresses a dread of condemnation, and a fear of futu...
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 addres...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job's Prayer for Enlightenment. Job now launches forth into a pitiful complaint, addressing God Himself on the great severity with which He was t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me, letting him die the death of a guilty person against the testimony of his conscience. Show me wherefore Thou...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 11:31 ; 1 Corinthians 11:32 ; Job 34:31 ; Job 34:32 ; Job 8:5 ; Job 8:6 ; Lamentations 3:40-42 ; Lamentations 5:16 ; Lamentati...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Condemn — Or, pronounce me not to be a wicked man, neither deal with me as such, as I confess thou mightest do in rigorous justice: O discover my i...

² I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

Related Commentaries of Job 10:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 10:2