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Selected Verse: Job 10:1 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 10:1 |
Strong Concordance |
My soul [05315] is weary [05354] of my life [02416]; I will leave [05800] my complaint [07879] upon myself; I will speak [01696] in the bitterness [04751] of my soul [05315]. |
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King James |
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD CONTINUED. (Job 10:1-22)
leave my complaint upon myself--rather, "I will give loose to my complaint" (Job 7:11). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
My soul is weary of my life - compare the note at Job 7:16. The margin here is, Or," cut off while I live." The meaning in the margin is in accordance with the interpretation of Schultens. The Chaldee also renders it in a similar way: אתגזרת נפשי - my soul is cut off. But the more correct interpretation is that in our common version; and the sense is, that his soul, that is, that he himself was disgusted with life. It was a weary burden, and he wished to die.
I will leave my complaint upon myself - Noyes, "I will give myself up to complaint." Dr. Good, "I will let loose from myself my dark thoughts." The literal sense is, "I will leave complaint upon myself;" that is, I will give way to it; I will not restrain it; compare Job 7:11.
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul - See the notes, Job 7:11. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
1 My soul is full of disgust with my life,
Therefore I will freely utter my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say to Eloah: Condemn me not;
Let me know wherefore Thou contendest with me!
His self-consciousness makes him desire that the possibility of answering for himself might be granted him; and since he is weary of life, and has renounced all claim for its continuance, he will at least give his complaints free course, and pray the Author of his sufferings that He would not permit him to die the death of the wicked, contrary to the testimony of his own conscience. נקטה is equivalent to נקטּה ot tnel, Eze 6:9, after the usual manner of the contraction of double Ayin verbs (Gen 11:6-7; Isa 19:3; Jdg 5:5; Eze 41:7; vid., Ges. 67, rem. 11); it may nevertheless be derived directly from נקט, for this secondary verb formed from the Niph. נקט is supported by the Aramaic. In like manner, in Gen 17:11 perhaps a secondary verb נמל, and certainly in Gen 9:19 and Isa 23:3 a secondary verb נפץ (Sa1 13:11), formed from the Niph. נפץ (Gen 10:18), is to be supposed; for the contraction of the Niphal form נקומה into נקמה is impossible; and the supposition which has been advanced, of a root פצץ = פוץ in the signification diffundere, dissipare is unnecessary. His soul is disgusted (fastidio affecta est, or fastidit) with his life, therefore he will give free course to his plaint (comp. Job 7:11). עלי is not super or de me, but, as Job 30:16, in me; it belongs to the Ego, as an expression of spontaneity: I in myself, since the Ego is the subject, ὑποκείμενον, of his individuality (Psychol. S. 151f.). The inner man is meant, which has the Ego over or in itself; from this the complaint shall issue forth as a stream without restraint; not, however, a mere gloomy lamentation over his pain, but a supplicatory complaint directed to God respecting the peculiar pang of his suffering, viz., this stroke which seems to come upon him from his Judge (ריב, seq. acc., as Isa 27:8), without his being conscious of that for which he is accounted guilty. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Shall I - Shall I give over complaining? |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
My soul is weary of my life - Here is a proof that נפש nephesh does not signify the animal life, but the soul or immortal mind, as distinguished from חי chai, that animal life; and is a strong proof that Job believed in the distinction between these two principles; was no materialist; but, on the contrary, credited the proper immortality of the soul. This is worthy of observation. See Job 12:10.
I will leave my complaint - I still charge myself with the cause of my own calamities; and shall not charge my Maker foolishly: but I must deplore my wretched and forlorn state. |
11 Therefore I will not refrain [02820] my mouth [06310]; I will speak [01696] in the anguish [06862] of my spirit [07307]; I will complain [07878] in the bitterness [04751] of my soul [05315].
11 Therefore I will not refrain [02820] my mouth [06310]; I will speak [01696] in the anguish [06862] of my spirit [07307]; I will complain [07878] in the bitterness [04751] of my soul [05315].
11 Therefore I will not refrain [02820] my mouth [06310]; I will speak [01696] in the anguish [06862] of my spirit [07307]; I will complain [07878] in the bitterness [04751] of my soul [05315].
16 I loathe [03988] it; I would not live [02421] alway [05769]: let me alone [02308]; for my days [03117] are vanity [01892].
8 In measure [05432], when it shooteth forth [07971], thou wilt debate [07378] with it: he stayeth [01898] his rough [07186] wind [07307] in the day [03117] of the east wind [06921].
16 And now my soul [05315] is poured out [08210] upon me; the days [03117] of affliction [06040] have taken hold [0270] upon me.
11 Therefore I will not refrain [02820] my mouth [06310]; I will speak [01696] in the anguish [06862] of my spirit [07307]; I will complain [07878] in the bitterness [04751] of my soul [05315].
18 And the Arvadite [0721], and the Zemarite [06786], and the Hamathite [02577]: and afterward [0310] were the families [04940] of the Canaanites [03669] spread abroad [06327].
11 And Samuel [08050] said [0559], What hast thou done [06213]? And Saul [07586] said [0559], Because I saw [07200] that the people [05971] were scattered [05310] from me, and that thou camest [0935] not within the days [03117] appointed [04150], and that the Philistines [06430] gathered themselves together [0622] at Michmash [04363];
3 And by great [07227] waters [04325] the seed [02233] of Sihor [07883], the harvest [07105] of the river [02975], is her revenue [08393]; and she is a mart [05505] of nations [01471].
19 These are the three [07969] sons [01121] of Noah [05146]: and of them was the whole earth [0776] overspread [05310].
11 And ye shall circumcise [05243] the flesh [01320] of your foreskin [06190]; and it shall be a token [0226] of the covenant [01285] betwixt me and you.
7 And there was an enlarging [07337], and a winding about [05437] still upward [04605] to the side chambers [06763]: for the winding about [04141] of the house [01004] went still upward [04605] round about [05439] the house [01004]: therefore the breadth [07341] of the house [01004] was still upward [04605], and so increased [05927] from the lowest [08481] chamber to the highest [05945] by the midst [08484].
5 The mountains [02022] melted [05140] from before [06440] the LORD [03068], even that Sinai [05514] from before [06440] the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478].
3 And the spirit [07307] of Egypt [04714] shall fail [01238] in the midst [07130] thereof; and I will destroy [01104] the counsel [06098] thereof: and they shall seek [01875] to the idols [0457], and to the charmers [0328], and to them that have familiar spirits [0178], and to the wizards [03049].
6 And the LORD [03068] said [0559], Behold, the people [05971] is one [0259], and they have all one [0259] language [08193]; and this they begin [02490] to do [06213]: and now nothing [03808] [03605] will be restrained [01219] from them, which they have imagined [02161] to do [06213].
7 Go to [03051], let us go down [03381], and there confound [01101] their language [08193], that [0834] they may not understand [08085] one [0376] another's [07453] speech [08193].
9 And they that escape [06412] of you shall remember [02142] me among the nations [01471] whither they shall be carried captives [07617], because I am broken [07665] with their whorish [02181] heart [03820], which hath departed [05493] from me, and with their eyes [05869], which go a whoring [02181] after [0310] their idols [01544]: and they shall lothe [06962] themselves [06440] for the evils [07451] which they have committed [06213] in all their abominations [08441].
10 In whose hand [03027] is the soul [05315] of every living thing [02416], and the breath [07307] of all mankind [0376] [01320].