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Job 10:3 King James 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?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Job is unwilling to think God can have pleasure in using His power to "oppress" the weak, and to treat man, the work of His own hands, as of no value (Job 10:8; Psa 138:8).

shine upon--favor with prosperity (Psa 50:2).
 
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2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
8 The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
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?
15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?