15 If I have done wickedly -- wo to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction,
Wo to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
Whom, though I were righteous, I answer not, For my judgment I make supplication.
For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.
If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! -- it declareth me perverse. Perfect I am! -- I know not my soul, I despise my life.
and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath, tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;
`So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say -- We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do -- we have done.'
Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach. Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners. Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers `are' as widows. Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come. For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us. `To' Egypt we have given a hand, `To' Asshur, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne. Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand. With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness. Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine. Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah. Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured. Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled. The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song. Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing. Fallen hath the crown `from' our head, Wo `is' now to us, for we have sinned. For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim. For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it. Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation. Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days! Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old. For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly?
And Jehovah saith, `I have certainly seen the affliction of My people who `are' in Egypt, and their cry I have heard, because of its exactors, for I have known its pains;
Thou hast met with the rejoicer And the doer of righteousness, In Thy ways they remember Thee, Lo, Thou hast been wroth when we sin, By them `is' continuance, and we are saved. And we are as unclean -- all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf -- all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.
And I say, `Wo to me, for I have been silent, For a man -- unclean of lips `am' I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'
`Resh.' See my affliction, and deliver Thou me, For Thy law I have not forgotten.
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Commentary on Job 10 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 10
Job owns here that he was full of confusion (v. 15), and as he was so was his discourse: he knew not what to say, and perhaps sometimes scarcely knew what he said. In this chapter,
Job 10:1-7
Here is,
Job 10:8-13
In these verses we may observe,
Job 10:14-22
Here we have,