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 God, Job 10 1-7. He argueth that, being God's work, in his hands, receiving all from him, God would not destroy him, Job 10:8-13. His sins expose him to God's wrath, which was terrible upon him, Job 10:14-17; curseth his birth: death desirable to him, Job 10:18-22. So the sense is, My soul is weary of dwelling in this rotten and miserable carcass. Or, I am from my heart, or with my very soul, weary of my life; and therefore I may be excused if I complain. Or, My soul is cut off while I live, i.e. I am dead whilst I live; I am in a manner buried alive. I will leave my complaint upon myself: so the sense is, I will complain, and the burden or hazard of so doing I will take upon myself, and be willing to bear it; I must give my sorrows vent, let come on me what will, as he saith, Job 13:13. But the words may be read interrogatively, Shall I then (or how can I then) leave my complaint (i.e. give over complaining) within or concerning (as the Hebrew al oft signifies) myself ? Or they may be rendered thus, I will strengthen (as this verb signifies, Nehemiah 3:8) my complaint against myself; whereby he implies that he would not complain against God so as to accuse him of injustice, but only against himself, or against his own life; or, concerning myself, i.e. I must renew and increase my complaints, as God renews and increases my sorrows. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul; my extreme misery forceth my complaints from me.