1 Job, taking liberty of complaint, expostulates with God about his afflictions
18 He complains of life, and craves a little ease before death

My soul 3:20-23 6:8,9 5:15,16,20 9:21 14:13 Nu 11:15 1Ki 19:4 Jon 4:3,8

is weary of my life. or, cut off while I live. I will leave 7:11 19:4 21:2-4

I will speak 15,16 6:2-4,26 7:11 16:6-16 Ps 32:3-5 Isa 38:15,17

2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

Do not Ps 6:1-4 25:7 38:1-8 109:21 143:2 Ro 8:1

shew me 8:5,6 34:31,32 Ps 139:23,24 La 3:40-42 5:16,17 1Co 11:31,32

3 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?

Is it good 34:5-7,18,19 36:7-9,17,18 40:2,8 La 3:2-18

despise Ps 69:33

the work. Heb. the labour 14:15 34:19 Ps 138:8 Isa 64:8 1Pe 4:19

shine upon 8:20 Jer 12:1-3

4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

seest thou 9:32 1Sa 16:7 Lu 16:15 Re 1:14

5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

Ps 90:2-4 102:12,24-27 Heb 1:12 2Pe 3:8

6 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

14-17 Ps 10:15 44:21 Jer 2:34 Zep 1:12 Joh 2:24,25 1Co 4:5

7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

Thou knowest. Heb. It is upon thy knowledge 23:10 31:6,14,35 42:7 Ps 1:6 7:3,8,9 17:3 26:1-5 139:1,2,21-24 Joh 21:17 2Co 1:12 1Th 2:10

and there 23:13,14 De 32:39 Ps 50:22 Da 3:15 Ho 2:10 Joh 10:28-30

8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

hands Ps 119:73 Isa 43:7

have made me. Heb. took pains about me. yet thou 3 Ge 6:6,7 Jer 18:3-10

9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Remember 7:7 Ps 25:6,7,18 89:47 106:4

thou hast Ge 2:7 3:19 Isa 45:9 64:8 Jer 18:6

into dust again 17:14 Ps 22:15 90:3 Ec 12:7 Ro 9:21

10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

poured Ps 139:14-16

11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

clothed 2Co 5:2,3

fenced. Heb. hedged 40:17,18 Eze 37:4-8 Eph 4:16

12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

life and favour Ge 19:19 Mt 6:25 Ac 17:25,28

13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.

hid 23:9 Ec 8:6,7 Isa 45:15 Ro 11:33

I know 23:13 De 32:39 Isa 45:7 46:9-11 La 3:37 Eph 3:11

14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

then 13:26,27 14:16 Ps 130:3 139:1

thou wilt 7:21 Ex 34:7 Nu 14:18

15 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;

If I be wicked 7 9:29 27:7 Ps 9:17 Isa 3:11 6:5 Mal 3:18 Ro 2:8,9

righteous 9:12,15,20,21 Isa 64:5,6 Lu 17:10

I am full 21:6 23:15

see Ex 3:7 Ps 25:18 119:153 La 1:20 5:1 *etc

16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

Thou huntest Isa 38:13 La 3:10 Ho 13:7,8 Am 3:8

marvellous Nu 16:29,30 De 28:59

17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

witnesses. that is, plagues 16:8 Ru 1:21

changes (I am as if attacked by successive troops; if one company be wearied, another succeeds to the attack.) Ps 55:19 Jer 48:11 Zep 1:12

war 16:11-16 19:6-11

18 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!

hast thou 3:10,11 Jer 15:10 20:14-18 Mt 26:24

given up 11:20 14:10

19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Ps 58:8

20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

my days few 7:6,7,16 8:9 9:25,26 14:1 Ps 39:5 103:15,16

cease 7:17-21 13:21 Ps 39:13

21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

I go whence 7:8-10 14:10-14 2Sa 12:23 14:14 Isa 38:11

the land 3:5 Ps 88:6,11,12

the shadow. See on 3:5 Ps 23:4 Jer 2:6

22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

the shadow of death (Where death projects his shadow, intercepting the light of life: without any order, having no arrangement, no distinction of inhabitants; the poor and the rich are there, the king and the beggar, their bodies in equal corruption and disgrace: where the light is as darkness, a palpable obscure, space and place, with only such a light or capability of distinction, as renders 'darkness visible.')