Psalms 58:8
I should have been carried from the womb to the grave - See the notes at Job 3:16 .
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...
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. I should have been as though - Had I given up the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
I should have been as though I had not been ,.... For though it cannot be said absolutely of such an one, an abortive or untimely birth, that it is...
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. Ver. 19. I should have been as though I had no...
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...
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,...
I should have been, or, Oh that I had been ! and so in the following branch, Oh that I had been carried! For why should not these verbs of the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Job Renews his Complaint of his Affliction
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave, still-born, a corpse, and out of misery.
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.