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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Job 10"
description: "CHAPTER 10   :-. JOB"
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---

CHAPTER 10

. JOB'S REPLY
TO BILDAD
CONTINUED.

**1. leave my complaint upon
myself**—rather, "I will *give loose* to my complaint"
([Job 7:11](../../../kjv/job/7/11)).

**2. show me,** &c.—Do not, by
virtue of Thy mere sovereignty, treat me as guilty without showing me
the reasons.

**3.** Job is unwilling to think God
can have pleasure in using His power to "oppress" the weak,
and to treat man, the work of His own hands, as of no value ([Job 10:8](../../../kjv/job/10/8);
[Psalms 138:8](../../../kjv/psalms/138/8)).
**shine upon**—favor with
prosperity ([Psalms 50:2](../../../kjv/psalms/50/2)).

**4-6.** Dost Thou see as feebly as
man? that is, with the same uncharitable eye, as, for instance, Job's
friends? Is Thy time as short? Impossible! Yet one might think, from
the rapid succession of Thy strokes, that Thou hadst no time to spare
in overwhelming me.

**7.** "Although Thou (the
Omniscient) knowest," &c. (connected with ), "Thou searchest after my sin."
**and . . .*****that*****none that can deliver out of thine hand**—Therefore Thou hast no
need to deal with me with the rapid violence which man would use (see
[Job 10:6](../../../kjv/job/10/6)).

**8. Made**—with pains; implying a
work of difficulty and art; applying to God language applicable only
to man.
**together round about**—implying
that the human body is a *complete unity,* the parts of which *on
all sides* will bear the closest scrutiny.

**9. clay**— proves that the reference here is, not so much to the
*perishable* nature of the materials, as to their *wonderful
fashioning* by the divine potter.

**10.** In the organization of the
body from its rude commencements, the original liquid gradually
assumes a more solid consistency, like milk curdling into cheese
([Psalms 139:15](../../../kjv/psalms/139/15); [Psalms 139:16](../../../kjv/psalms/139/16)).
Science reveals that the chyle circulated by the lacteal vessels is
the supply to every organ.

**11. fenced**—or "inlaid"
([Psalms 139:15](../../../kjv/psalms/139/15)); "curiously
wrought" [UMBREIT].
In the foeligtus the skin appears first, then the flesh, then the
harder parts.

**12. visitation**—Thy watchful
Providence.
**spirit**—breath.

**13. is with thee**—was Thy
purpose. All God's dealings with Job in his creation, preservation,
and present afflictions were part of His secret counsel ([Psalms 139:16](../../../kjv/psalms/139/16);
[Acts 15:18](../../../kjv/acts/15/18); [Ecclesiastes 3:11](../../../kjv/ecclesiastes/3/11)).

**14, 15.** Job is perplexed because
God "marks" every sin of his with such ceaseless rigor.
Whether "wicked" (godless and a hypocrite) or "righteous"
(comparatively sincere), God condemns and punishes alike.

**15. lift up my head**—in
conscious innocence ([Psalms 3:3](../../../kjv/psalms/3/3)).
**see thou**—rather, "and
seeing I see (I too well see) mine affliction," (which seems to
prove me guilty) [UMBREIT].

**16. increaseth**—rather, "(if)
I *lift* up (my head) Thou wouldest hunt me," &c.
[UMBREIT].
**and again**—as if a lion
should not kill his prey at once, but come back and torture it again.

**17. witnesses**—His accumulated
trials were like a succession of witnesses brought up in proof of his
guilt, to wear out the accused.
**changes and war**—rather,
"(thou settest in array) against me host after host"
(literally, "changes and a host," that is, a succession of
hosts); namely, his afflictions, and then reproach upon reproach from
his friends.

**20.** But, since I was destined
from my birth to these ills, at least give me a little breathing time
during the few days left me ([Job 9:34](../../../kjv/job/9/34);
[Job 13:21](../../../kjv/job/13/21); [Psalms 39:13](../../../kjv/psalms/39/13)).

**22.** The ideas of order and
light, disorder and darkness, harmonize (). Three *Hebrew* words are used for darkness; in (1) the common word "darkness"; here (2) "a
land of gloom" (from a *Hebrew* root, "to cover up");
(3) as "thick darkness" or blackness (from a root,
expressing sunset). "Where the light thereof is like blackness."
Its only sunshine is thick darkness. A bold figure of poetry. Job in
a better frame has brighter thoughts of the unseen world. But his
views at best wanted the definite clearness of the Christian's.
Compare with his words here [Revelation 21:23](../../../kjv/revelation/21/23);
[Revelation 22:5](../../../kjv/revelation/22/5); [2 Timothy 1:10](../../../kjv/2-timothy/1/10).

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