Job 10

Job 10:1

WEary of my life] Or, out off while I live. upon my self] I will speak at mine own perill. If any inconvenience fall upon me for complaining, I will bear it my self.

Job 10:2

Do not condemn me] Use not thy absolute power to destroy me: seeing my conscience condemns me not for such a sinner as these men charge me to be, shew me why thou doest?

Job 10:3

Is it good unto thee] Profitable, or pleasing to thee.

that thou shouldest despise] To destroy thy creature by thy soveraign power, before he be convicted, or condemned.

the work of thine hands] Heb. the labour of thine hands. To shew no respect to me thine own creature.

shine upon the counsell of the wicked?] To make wicked mens counsells flourish. It may be he means, that God did uphold his friends that called him an hypocrite.

Job 10:4

Hast thou eyes of flesh] 1 Samuel 16:7. Thou knowest the heart. What needest thou to enquire of my estate by tormenting me, as earthly judges sometimes are forced to do.

Job 10:5

Are thy dayes as the dayes of man?] Art not thou eternall? Knowest thou not things past, present, and to come in a moment? What needest thou to proceed by way of enquiry as men do?

Job 10:7

Thou knowest] Heb. It is upon thy knowledge.

Thou knowest that I am not wicked] Though thou thy self knowest my innocency, yet I must be punished.

and] Or, yet.

Job 10:8

Thine hands have made me] In this eighth verse, and those that follow, he describeth the mercy of God in the wonderfull creation of man: and thereon groundeth this conclusion, That God ought not to shew himself rigorous against him, Vers. 3. Psalms 119:73.

made me] Heb. took pains about me.

together round about] Or, and wilt thou destroy me quite at once?

Job 10:9

thou hast made me as the clay] As brittle as a pot of clay, 2 Corinthians 4. 7.

Job 10:10

Hast thou not poured me out as milk] Psal. 139. 14, 15, 16.

Job 10:11

fenced] Heb. hedged.

Job 10:12

thy visitation hath preserved my spirit] Thy fatherly care and providence doth preserve me, and without it I should perish suddenly.

Job 10:13

And these things hast thou hid in thine heart] Or, And hast thou hid these things in thine heart? These thoughts of bringing evill upon me thy creature.

Job 10:14

If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquitie.] Or, if I had sinned, wouldst thou shut me up, and wilt thou not, &c. If I had committed some great sins, is it fit I should alwayes be kept in prison, as it were, with afflictions, and never be released? See notes on chap. 7. vers. 12.

Job 10:15

and if I be righteous] It is all one whether I be righteous or wicked: I can look for no ease, chap. 9. 15, 20.

will] Or, may.

Job 10:17

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me] Plagues are proofs of Gods indignation, and therefore are called his witnesses. See Ruth 1:21. Job 16:8. Malachi 3:5.

thy witnesses] That is, thy plagues.

changes and war are against me] Psalms 55:19. One sorrow comes after another upon me, as one army after another, for God hath infinite means to punish man.

Job 10:18

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb?] Chap. 3. 11.

Oh that I had given up the ghost] Or, I might have given up, &c.

Job 10:20

Are not my dayes few?] See chap. 7. 6. and 8. 9.

cease then] He wisheth that God would leave off afflicting him, considering his great misery, and the brevity of his life.

Job 10:21

to the land of darknesse] A description of the grave, from whence a man shall never return into this world.

Job 10:22

without any order] A place where is no varietie, or difference of degrees, chap. 3. 19. which is a great part of the beauty of this world.

and where the light is as darknesse] Or, And when it shines here, it is as darknesse there.