Job Despairs of God’s Dealings
“aI am disgusted with my life and loathe it!I will give free expression to bmy complaint;I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.Job 7:16Job 7:112 “I will say to God, ‘aDo not condemn me and declare me guilty!Show me why You contend and argue and struggle with me.Job 9:293 ‘Does it indeed seem right to You to aoppress,To despise and reject bthe work of Your hands,And to look with favor on cthe schemes of the wicked?Job 9:22-24; 16:11; 19:6; 27:2Job 10:8; 14:15; Ps 138:8; Is 64:8Job 21:16; 22:184 ‘Do You have eyes of flesh?Do You asee as a man sees?1 Sam 16:7; Job 28:24; 34:215 ‘Are Your days as the days of a mortal,Are aYour years as man’s years,Job 36:266 That aYou seek my guiltAnd search for my sin?Job 14:167 ‘Although You know that aI am not guilty or wicked,Yet there is bno one who can rescue me from Your hand.Job 9:21; 13:18Job 9:12; 23:13; 27:22
8 ‘aYour hands have formed and made me altogether.bWould You turn around and destroy me?Job 10:3; Ps 119:73Job 9:229 ‘Remember now, that You have made me as aclay;So will You bturn me into dust again?Job 4:19; 33:6Job 7:2110 ‘Have You not poured me out like milkAnd curdled me like cheese?11 ‘You have clothed me with skin and flesh,And knit me together with bones and sinews.12 ‘You have agranted me life and lovingkindness;And Your providence has preserved my spirit.Job 33:413 ‘Yet athese present evils You have hidden in Your heart since my creation:I know that this was within You in Your purpose and thought.Job 23:1314 ‘If I sin, then You would atake note and observe me,And You bwould not acquit me of my guilt.Job 7:20Job 7:21; 9:2815 ‘If aI am wicked, woe to me for judgment comes!And bif I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.For I am sated and filled with disgrace and the sight of my misery.Job 10:7; Is 3:11Job 6:2916 ‘Should I lift my head up, aYou would hunt me like a lion;And again You would show Your marvelous bpower against me.Is 38:13; Lam 3:10; Hos 13:7Job 5:917 ‘You renew aYour witnesses against meAnd increase Your indignation and anger toward me;bHardship after hardship is with me attacking me time after time.Ruth 1:21; Job 16:8Job 7:1
18 ‘aWhy then did You bring me out of the womb?Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me!Job 3:11-1319 ‘I should have been as though I had not existed;I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.’20 “Would He not alet my few days alone,bWithdraw from me that I may have a little cheerJob 14:1Job 7:16, 1921 Before I go—aand I shall not return—bTo the land of darkness and the cdeep shadow of death,2 Sam 12:23; Job 3:13-19; 16:22Ps 88:12Job 10:22; 34:22; 38:17; Ps 23:422 The sunless land of utter gloom as darkness itself,The land of the shadow of death, without order,And where it shines as thick darkness.”