Morning Bible Study: Job 10:1-7

10:1 I am disgusted with my life.

I will give vent to my complaint

and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

2 I will say to God,

“Do not declare me guilty!

Let me know why you prosecute me.

3 Is it good for you to oppress,

to reject the work of your hands,

and favor the plans of the wicked?

4 Do you have eyes of flesh,

or do you see as a human sees?

5 Are your days like those of a human,

or your years like those of a man,

6 that you look for my iniquity

and search for my sin,

7 even though you know that I am not wicked

and that there is no one who can rescue from your power?

Commentary

(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, 1706 -- www.christianity.com)

"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 harbor 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."