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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Job 10

Chapter 10

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

My soul

3:20-23 6:8,9 5:15,16,20 9:21 14:13 Numbers 11:15 1 Kings 19:4 Jonah 4:3,8

is weary of my life

or, cut off while I live. I will leave.

7:11 19:4 21:2-4

I will speak

15,16 6:2-4,26 7:11 16:6-16 Psalms 32:3-5 Isaiah 38:15,17

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

Do not

Psalms 6:1-4 25:7 38:1-8 109:21 143:2 Romans 8:1

shew me

8:5,6 34:31,32 Psalms 139:23,24 Lamentations 3:40-42 5:16,17 1 Corinthians 11:31,32

Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

Is it good

34:5-7,18,19 36:7-9,17,18 40:2,8 Lamentations 3:2-18

despise

Psalms 69:33

the work

Heb. the labour.

14:15 34:19 Psalms 138:8 Isaiah 64:8 1 Peter 4:19

shine upon

8:20 Jeremiah 12:1-3

Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

seest thou

9:32 1 Samuel 16:7 Luke 16:15 Revelation 1:14

Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

Psalms 90:2-4 102:12,24-27 Hebrews 1:12 2 Peter 3:8

That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

14-17 Psalms 10:15 44:21 Jeremiah 2:34 Zephaniah 1:12 John 2:24,25 1 Corinthians 4:5

Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

Thou knowest

Heb. It is upon thy knowledge.

23:10 31:6,14,35 42:7 Psalms 1:6 7:3,8,9 17:3 26:1-5 Psalms 139:1,2,21-24 John 21:17 2 Corinthians 1:12 1 Thessalonians 2:10

and there

23:13,14 Deuteronomy 32:39 Psalms 50:22 Daniel 3:15 Hosea 2:10 John 10:28-30

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

hands

Psalms 119:73 Isaiah 43:7

have made me

Heb. took pains about me. yet thou.

3 Genesis 6:6,7 Jeremiah 18:3-10

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Remember

7:7 Psalms 25:6,7,18 89:47 106:4

thou hast

Genesis 2:7 3:19 Isaiah 45:9 64:8 Jeremiah 18:6

into dust again

17:14 Psalms 22:15 90:3 Ecclesiastes 12:7 Romans 9:21

Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

poured

Psalms 139:14-16

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

clothed

2 Corinthians 5:2,3

fenced

Heb. hedged.

40:17,18 Ezekiel 37:4-8 Ephesians 4:16

Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

life and favour

Genesis 19:19 Matthew 6:25 Acts 17:25,28

And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.

hid

23:9 Ecclesiastes 8:6,7 Isaiah 45:15 Romans 11:33

I know

23:13 Deuteronomy 32:39 Isaiah 45:7 46:9-11 Lamentations 3:37 Ephesians 3:11

If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

then

13:26,27 14:16 Psalms 130:3 139:1

thou wilt

7:21 Exodus 34:7 Numbers 14:18

If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

If I be wicked

7 9:29 27:7 Psalms 9:17 Isaiah 3:11 6:5 Malachi 3:18 Romans 2:8,9

righteous

9:12,15,20,21 Isaiah 64:5,6 Luke 17:10

I am full

21:6 23:15

see

Exodus 3:7 Psalms 25:18 119:153 Lamentations 1:20 5:1-22

For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

Thou huntest

Isaiah 38:13 Lamentations 3:10 Hosea 13:7,8 Amos 3:8

marvellous

Numbers 16:29,30 Deuteronomy 28:59

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

witnesses

that is, plagues.

16:8 Ruth 1:21

changes

I am as if attacked by successive troops; if one company be wearied, another succeeds to the attack.

Psalms 55:19 Jeremiah 48:11 Zephaniah 1:12

war

16:11-16 19:6-11

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

hast thou

3:10,11 Jeremiah 15:10 20:14-18 Matthew 26:24

given up

11:20 14:10

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Psalms 58:8

Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

my days few

7:6,7,16 8:9 9:25,26 14:1 Psalms 39:5 103:15,16

cease

7:17-21 13:21 Psalms 39:13

Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

I go whence

7:8-10 14:10-14 2 Samuel 12:23 14:14 Isaiah 38:11

the land

3:5 Psalms 88:6,11,12

the shadow

3:5 Psalms 23:4 Jeremiah 2:6

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

the shadow of death

Where death projects his shadow, intercepting the light of life: without any order, having no arrangement, no distinction of inhabitants; the poor and the rich are there, the king and the beggar, their bodies in equal corruption and disgrace: where the light is as darkness, a palpable obscure, space and place, with only such a light or capability of distinction, as renders "darkness visible."

3:5 34:22 38:17 Psalms 23:4 44:19 88:12 Jeremiah 2:6 13:16 Luke 16:26