101 “My soul is weary of my life.
I will give free course to my complaint.
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 2 I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me.
Show me why you contend with me. 3 Is it good to you that you should oppress,
that you should despise the work of your hands,
and smile on the counsel of the wicked? 4 Do you have eyes of flesh?
Or do you see as man sees? 5 Are your days as the days of mortals,
or your years as man’s years, 6 that you inquire after my iniquity,
and search after my sin? 7 Although you know that I am not wicked,
there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 10:1-7
Commentary on Job 10:1-7
(Read Job 10:1-7)
Job, being weary of his life, resolves to complain, but he will not charge God with unrighteousness. Here is a prayer that he might be delivered from the sting of his afflictions, which is sin. When God afflicts us, he contends with us; when he contends with us, there is always a reason; and it is desirable to know the reason, that we may repent of and forsake the sin for which God has a controversy with us. But when, like Job, we speak in the bitterness of our souls, we increase guilt and vexation. Let us harbour no hard thoughts of God; we shall hereafter see there was no cause for them. Job is sure that God does not discover things, nor judge of them, as men do; therefore he thinks it strange that God continues him under affliction, as if he must take time to inquire into his sin.