Job:10

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* My soul is (note :)I am more like a dead man , than to one that lives .(:note ) weary of my life ; I will leave my I will make an ample declaration of my torments , accusing myself and not God . complaint upon myself ; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul . * I will say unto God , Do not (note :)He would not that God would proceed against him by his secret justice , but by the ordinary means that he punishes others .(:note ) condemn me ; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me . * [Is it ] (note :)Is it agreeable to your justice to do me wrong ?(:note ) good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress , that thou shouldest despise the Will you be without compassions ? work of thine hands , and shine upon the Will you gratify the wicked and condemn me ? counsel of the wicked ? * Hast thou eyes of (note :)Do you do this of ignorance .(:note ) flesh ? or seest thou as man seeth ? * [Are ] thy days as the (note :)Are you inconstant and changeable as the times , today a friend , tomorrow an enemy ?(:note ) days of man ? [are ] thy years as man 's days , * That thou inquirest of mine iniquitie , and searchest out my sinne ? * Thou knowest that I am not (note :)By affliction you keep me as in a prison , and restrain me from doing evil , neither can any set me free .(:note ) wicked ; and [there is ] none that can deliver out of thine hand . * Thine (note :)In these eight verses following he describes the mercy of God , in the wonderful creation of man : and on it grounds that God should not show himself rigorous against him .(:note ) hands have made me and fashioned me together round about ; yet thou dost destroy me . * Remember , I beseech thee , that thou hast made me as (note :)As brittle as a pot of clay .(:note ) the clay ; and wilt thou bring me into dust again ? * Hast thou not powred me out as milke ? &amp ; turned me to cruds like cheese ? * Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh , and ioyned me together with bones and sinewes . * Thou hast granted me life and (note :)That is , reason and understanding , and many other gifts , by which man excels all earthly creatures .(:note ) favour , and thy That is , the fatherly care and providence by which you preserved me , and without which I would perish immediately . visitation hath preserved my spirit . * And these [things ] hast thou hid in thine heart : I know (note :)Though I am not fully able to comprehend these things , yet I must confess that it is so .(:note ) that this [is ] with thee . * If I haue sinned , then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me , and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie . * If I be wicked , woe unto me ; and [if ] I be righteous , [yet ] will I not (note :)I will always walk in fear and humility , knowing that no one is just before you .(:note ) lift up my head . [I am ] full of confusion ; therefore see thou mine affliction ; * For it increaseth . Thou huntest me as a fierce lion : and again thou shewest thyself (note :)Job being sore assaulted in this battle between the flesh and the spirit , breaks out into these affections , wishing rather for short days than long pain .(:note ) marvellous upon me . * Thou renewest thy witnesses against me , and increasest thine indignation upon me ; (note :)That is , diversity of diseases and in great abundance ; showing that God has infinite means to punish man .(:note ) changes and war [are ] against me . * Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe ? Oh that I had perished , and that none eye had seene me ! * And that I were as I had not bene , but brought from the wombe to the graue ! * [Are ] not my days few ? (note :)He wishes that God would leave off his affliction , considering his great misery and the shortness of his life .(:note ) cease [then , and ] let me alone , that I may take comfort a little , * Before I go [whence ] I shall not (note :)He speaks this in the person of a sinner , that is overcome with passions and with the feeling of God 's judgments and therefore cannot apprehend in that state the mercies of God , and the comfort of the resurrection .(:note ) return , [even ] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death ; * A land of darkness , as darkness [itself ; and ] of the shadow of death , without any (note :)No distinction between light and darkness but where there is very darkness itself .(:note ) order , and [where ] the light [is ] as darkness .

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