the Third Week after Easter
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Read the Bible
World English Bible
Job 10:2
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- CharlesContextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Do not: Psalms 6:1-4, Psalms 25:7, Psalms 38:1-8, Psalms 109:21, Psalms 143:2, Romans 8:1
show me: Job 8:5, Job 8:6, Job 34:31, Job 34:32, Psalms 139:23, Psalms 139:24, Lamentations 3:40-42, Lamentations 5:16, Lamentations 5:17, 1 Corinthians 11:31, 1 Corinthians 11:32
Reciprocal: Numbers 11:11 - wherefore have 1 Samuel 1:16 - out of 1 Samuel 6:3 - known 2 Samuel 21:1 - of the Lord Job 6:24 - cause me Job 9:3 - he will contend Job 9:15 - I would Job 13:24 - hidest thou Job 21:4 - is my complaint Job 23:5 - know Job 31:14 - What then Job 32:1 - righteous Job 36:9 - he Psalms 77:6 - and Ecclesiastes 7:14 - but Jeremiah 8:6 - saying Jonah 1:7 - for Micah 6:9 - hear Haggai 1:9 - Why
Cross-References
Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).
Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.
I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was your awning.
Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.
Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you.
You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I will say unto God, do not condemn me,.... Not that he feared eternal condemnation; there is none to them that are in Christ, and believe in him as Job did; Christ's undertakings, sufferings, and death, secure his people from the condemnation of law and justice; nor, indeed, are the afflictions of God's people a condemnation of them, but a fatherly chastisement, and are in order to prevent their being condemned with the world; yet they may look as if they were, in the eyes of the men of the world, and they as very wicked persons; and so the word may be rendered, "do not account me wicked" d, or treat me as a wicked man, by continuing thine afflicting hand upon the; which, as long as it was on him, his friends would not believe but that he was a wicked man; wherefore, as God knew he was not such an one as they took him to be, he begs that he would not use him as such, that so the censure he lay under might be removed; and though he was condemned by them, he entreats that God would make it appear he was not condemned by him: and whereas he was not conscious to himself of any notorious wickedness done by him, which deserved such usage, he further prays,
show me wherefore thou contendest with me. Afflictions are the Lord's controversy with his people, a striving, a contending with them; which are sometimes so sharp, that were they continued long, the spirits would fail before him, and the souls that he has made: now there is always a cause or reason for them, which God has in his own breast, though it is not always known to man, at least not at first, or as soon as the controversy or contention is begun; when God afflicts, it is either for sin, to prevent it, or purge from it, or to bring his people to a sense of it, to repent of it, and forsake it, or to try their graces, and make them more partakers of his holiness; and when good men, as Job, are at a loss about this, not being conscious of any gross iniquity committed, or a course of sin continued in, it is lawful, and right, and commendable, to inquire the reason of it, and learn, if possible, the end, design, and use of such dispensations.
d אל תרשיעני "neque judices me improbum", Vatablus; so Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me - Do not hold me to be wicked - תרשׁיעני אל 'al tarshı̂y‛ēnı̂y. The sense is, “Do not simply hold me to be wicked, and treat me as such, without showing me the reasons why I am so regarded.” This was the ground of Job’s complaint, that God by mere sovereignty and power held him to be a wicked man, and that he did not see the reasons why he was so considered and treated. He now desired to know in what he had offended, and to be made acquainted with the cause of his sufferings. The idea is, that it was unjust to treat one as guilty who had no opportunity of knowing the nature of the offence with which he was charged, or the reason why he was condemned.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 10:2. Do not condemn me — Let me not be afflicted in thy wrath.
Show me wherefore thou contendest — If I am afflicted because of my sins, show me what that sin is. God never afflicts but for past sin, or to try his followers; or for the greater manifestation of his grace in their support and deliverance.
