Chapter 10:
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Job 10
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Job complains of his hardships. (1-7) He pleads with God as
his Maker. (8-13) He complains of God's severity. (14-22)
Verses 1-7 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 harbour 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.
Verses 8-13 Job
seems to argue with God, as if he only formed and preserved him for misery. God
made us, not we ourselves. How sad that those bodies should be instruments of
unrighteousness, which are capable of being temples of the Holy Ghost! But the
soul is the life, the soul is the man, and this is the gift of God. If we plead
with ourselves as an inducement to duty, God made me and maintains me, we may
plead as an argument for mercy, Thou hast made me, do thou new-make me; I am
thine, save me.
Verses 14-22 Job
did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that
justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and
hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations,
and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward
trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer
also, will not destroy the work of his hands in any humble believer; but will
renew him unto holiness, that he may enjoy eternal life. If anguish on earth
renders the grave a desirable refuge, what will be their condition who are
condemned to the blackness of darkness for ever? Let every sinner seek
deliverance from that dreadful state, and every believer be thankful to Jesus,
who delivereth from the wrath to come.
Chapter 10:
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