Job 10
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 10, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. {weary...: or, cut off while I live}
Job 10:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job 10:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{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? {work: Heb. labour}
Job 10:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
Job 10:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Are} thy days as the days of man? {are} thy years as man's days,
Job 10:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Job 10:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and {there is} none that can deliver out of thine hand. {Thou...: Heb. It is upon thy knowledge}
Job 10:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. {have...: Heb. took pains about me}
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Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Job 10:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Job 10:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. {fenced: Heb. hedged}
Job 10:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
Job 10:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And these {things} hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this {is} with thee.
Job 10:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
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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;
Job 10:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Job 10:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war {are} against me. {witnesses: that is, plagues}
Job 10:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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!
Job 10:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Job 10:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Are} not my days few? cease {then, and} let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Job 10:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Before I go {whence} I shall not return, {even} to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Job 10:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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A land of darkness, as darkness {itself; and} of the shadow of death, without any order, and {where} the light {is} as darkness.
Job 10:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.