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.
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
the work
Heb. the labour.
14.15 34.19 Psalms 138.8 Isaiah 64.8 1 Peter 4.19
shine upon
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
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
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
clothed
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
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.
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
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
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
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
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
the shadow
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