14 if I sin, then you mark me.
You will not acquit me from my iniquity. 15 If I am wicked, woe to me.
If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head,
being filled with disgrace,
and conscious of my affliction. 16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion.
Again you show yourself powerful to me. 17 You renew your witnesses against me,
and increase your indignation on me.
Changes and warfare are with me. 18 “‘Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb?
I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. 19 I should have been as though I had not been.
I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. 20 Aren’t my days few?
Cease then.
Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort, 21 before I go where I shall not return from,
to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; 22 the land dark as midnight,
of the shadow of death,
without any order,
where the light is as midnight.’”
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 10:14-22
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.