19 If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
19 and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
19 I wish I'd never lived - a stillborn, buried without ever having breathed.
19 I would have been as though I had not been. I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.
19 It would be as though I had never existed, going directly from the womb to the grave.
22 "Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest?
22 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
22 Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?
22 "But who are we to tell God how to run his affairs? He's dealing with matters that are way over our heads.
22 "Can anyone teach God knowledge, Since He judges those on high?
22 "But who can teach a lesson to God, since he judges even the most powerful?
(Read Job 21:17-26)
Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their certain ruin in this life. He reconciles this to the holiness and justice of God. Even while they prosper thus, they are light and worthless, of no account with God, or with wise men. In the height of their pomp and power, there is but a step between them and ruin. Job refers the difference Providence makes between one wicked man and another, into the wisdom of God. He is Judge of all the earth, and he will do right. So vast is the disproportion between time and eternity, that if hell be the lot of every sinner at last, it makes little difference if one goes singing thither, and another sighing. If one wicked man die in a palace, and another in a dungeon, the worm that dies not, and the fire that is not quenched, will be the same to them. Thus differences in this world are not worth perplexing ourselves about.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 10:19
Commentary on Job 10:14-22
(Read Job 10:14-22)
Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy the work of his hands in any humble believer; but will renew him unto holiness, that he may enjoy eternal life. If anguish on earth renders the grave a desirable refuge, what will be their condition who are condemned to the blackness of darkness for ever? Let every sinner seek deliverance from that dreadful state, and every believer be thankful to Jesus, who delivereth from the wrath to come.