13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
13 "But this is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind:
13 Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.
13 "But you never told me about this part. I should have known that there was more to it -
13 'And these things You have hidden in Your heart; I know that this was with You:
13 "'Yet your real motive- your true intent-
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 10:13
Commentary on Job 10:8-13
(Read Job 10:8-13)
Job seems to argue with God, as if he only formed and preserved him for misery. God made us, not we ourselves. How sad that those bodies should be instruments of unrighteousness, which are capable of being temples of the Holy Ghost! But the soul is the life, the soul is the man, and this is the gift of God. If we plead with ourselves as an inducement to duty, God made me and maintains me, we may plead as an argument for mercy, Thou hast made me, do thou new-make me; I am thine, save me.