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Job 10

Clinging to a Counterfeit Cross
Introduction

1  Job, taking liberty of complaint, expostulates with God about his afflictions.
18  He complains of life, and craves a little ease before death.
Verse 1

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
My soul
3:20-23, 6:8,9, 5:15,16,20, 9:21, 14:13, Numbers 11:15, 1 Kings 19:4, Jonah 4:3,8
is weary of my life
or, cut off while I live. I will leave.
7:11, 19:4, 21:2-4
I will speak
15,16, 6:2-4,26, 7:11, 16:6-16, Psalms 32:3-5, Isaiah 38:15,17
Verse 2

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Do not
Psalms 6:1-4, 25:7, 38:1-8, 109:21, 143:2, Romans 8:1
shew me
8:5,6, 34:31,32, Psalms 139:23,24, Lamentations 3:40-42, 5:16,17, 1 Corinthians 11:31,32
Verse 3

Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Is it good
34:5-7,18,19, 36:7-9,17,18, 40:2,8, Lamentations 3:2-18
despise
Psalms 69:33
the work
Heb. the labour.
14:15, 34:19, Psalms 138:8, Isaiah 64:8, 1 Peter 4:19
shine upon
8:20, Jeremiah 12:1-3
Verse 4

Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
seest thou
9:32, 1 Samuel 16:7, Luke 16:15, Revelation 1:14
Verse 5

Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
Psalms 90:2-4, 102:12,24-27, Hebrews 1:12, 2 Peter 3:8
Verse 6

That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
14-17, Psalms 10:15, 44:21, Jeremiah 2:34, Zephaniah 1:12, John 2:24,25, 1 Corinthians 4:5
Verse 7

Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Thou knowest
Heb. It is upon thy knowledge.
23:10, 31:6,14,35, 42:7, Psalms 1:6, 7:3,8,9, 17:3, 26:1-5, Psalms 139:1,2,21-24, John 21:17, 2 Corinthians 1:12, 1 Thessalonians 2:10
and there
23:13,14, Deuteronomy 32:39, Psalms 50:22, Daniel 3:15, Hosea 2:10, John 10:28-30
Verse 8

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
hands
Psalms 119:73, Isaiah 43:7
have made me
Heb. took pains about me. yet thou.
3, Genesis 6:6,7, Jeremiah 18:3-10
Verse 9

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Remember
7:7, Psalms 25:6,7,18, 89:47, 106:4
thou hast
Genesis 2:7, 3:19, Isaiah 45:9, 64:8, Jeremiah 18:6
into dust again
17:14, Psalms 22:15, 90:3, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Romans 9:21
Verse 10

Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
poured
Psalms 139:14-16
Verse 11

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
clothed
2 Corinthians 5:2,3
fenced
Heb. hedged.
40:17,18, Ezekiel 37:4-8, Ephesians 4:16
Verse 12

Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
life and favour
Genesis 19:19, Matthew 6:25, Acts 17:25,28
Verse 13

And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
hid
23:9, Ecclesiastes 8:6,7, Isaiah 45:15, Romans 11:33
I know
23:13, Deuteronomy 32:39, Isaiah 45:7, 46:9-11, Lamentations 3:37, Ephesians 3:11
Verse 14

If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
then
13:26,27, 14:16, Psalms 130:3, 139:1
thou wilt
7:21, Exodus 34:7, Numbers 14:18
Verse 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; therefore see thou mine affliction;
If I be wicked
7, 9:29, 27:7, Psalms 9:17, Isaiah 3:11, 6:5, Malachi 3:18, Romans 2:8,9
righteous
9:12,15,20,21, Isaiah 64:5,6, Luke 17:10
I am full
21:6, 23:15
see
Exodus 3:7, Psalms 25:18, 119:153, Lamentations 1:20, 5:1-22
Verse 16

For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Thou huntest
Isaiah 38:13, Lamentations 3:10, Hosea 13:7,8, Amos 3:8
marvellous
Numbers 16:29,30, Deuteronomy 28:59
Verse 17

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
witnesses
that is, plagues.
16:8, Ruth 1:21
changes
I am as if attacked by successive troops; if one company be wearied, another succeeds to the attack.
Psalms 55:19, Jeremiah 48:11, Zephaniah 1:12
war
16:11-16, 19:6-11
Verse 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!
hast thou
3:10,11, Jeremiah 15:10, 20:14-18, Matthew 26:24
given up
11:20, 14:10
Verse 19

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Psalms 58:8
Verse 20

Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
my days few
7:6,7,16, 8:9, 9:25,26, 14:1, Psalms 39:5, 103:15,16
cease
7:17-21, 13:21, Psalms 39:13
Verse 21

Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
I go whence
7:8-10, 14:10-14, 2 Samuel 12:23, 14:14, Isaiah 38:11
the land
3:5, Psalms 88:6,11,12
the shadow
3:5, Psalms 23:4, Jeremiah 2:6
Verse 22

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
the shadow of death
Where death projects his shadow, intercepting the light of life: without any order, having no arrangement, no distinction of inhabitants; the poor and the rich are there, the king and the beggar, their bodies in equal corruption and disgrace: where the light is as darkness, a palpable obscure, space and place, with only such a light or capability of distinction, as renders "darkness visible."
3:5, 34:22, 38:17, Psalms 23:4, 44:19, 88:12, Jeremiah 2:6, 13:16, Luke 16:26

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