Job 10:18

Wherefore... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.

Oh...! Figure of speech Ecphonesis.

given up the ghost. died. Hebrew. gava'. Compare Job 3:11; Job 13:19; Job 14:10. Not Job 11:20.

Related Commentaries of Job 10:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth - See the notes at Job 3:11 .
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

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! Wherefore then - Why didst thou...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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! No JFB commentary on the...
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth? — Here Job reverts to the strain of his original curse ( Job 3:11 , &c.).
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

(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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb ?.... Into this world; this act is rightly ascribed by Job to the Lord, as it is by David,...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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! Ver. 18. Wherefore hast thou...
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

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,...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

To wit, alive, i.e. that I had never been born alive.
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

Oh that I had given up the ghost! The effects of Job’s sufferings The patriarch had already in the previous verses expressed to the Almighty t...
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 Renews his Complaint of his Affliction
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wherefore, then, hast Thou brought me forth out of the womb? He renews his complaint, bewailing the fact that he was ever born. Oh, that I had given...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 15:10 ; Jeremiah 20:14-18 ; Job 11:20 ; Job 14:10 ; Job 3:10 ; Job 3:11 ; Matthew 26:24

¹⁸ 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!

Related Commentaries of Job 10:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the 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

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

Job 10:18