| Job 10:1
| My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
| Life. Job had intimated a fear to proceed any farther. (Calmet) --- But perceiving that he had not convinced his friends, he continues his discourse (Haydock) in still stronger terms, yet so as to acknowledge the justice of God. (Calmet) --- Speech against. Hebrew, "complaint upon, (Haydock) or respecting myself," I will deplore my misfortunes, (Calmet) or I will say no more about them. (Menochius)
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| Job 10:2
| I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so?
| Judgest. Hebrew, "contendest with me," as with an enemy? Is it to punish some fault, or only to make thy grace shine forth? (Calmet)
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| Job 10:3
| Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?
| Calumniate permissively, by treating me in such a manner, that others lay false crimes to my charge. Hebrew, "oppress and despise the work." --- Wicked, who are ready enough (Haydock) to assert that virtue is useless, (Calmet) and that God mindeth not human affairs. My affliction will confirm them in their false notion, (Haydock) and my friends will triumph as if their arguments were well founded. The devil will also exult. (Calmet) --- He knew that God could not be guilty of calumny, and inquireth why he is afflicted. (Worthington)
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| Job 10:4
| Hast thou eyes of flesh: or, shalt thou see as man seeth?
| Seeth, judging only of the exterior. (Tirinus) (Ver. 6.)
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| Job 10:5
| Are thy days as the days of man, and are thy years as the times of men:
| Days, sometimes denote judgments, 1 Corinthians 4:3. Is God liable to change, like men, or does he stand in need of time to examine them, or fear lest they should escape? (Calmet) --- Is it necessary for him to prove his friends, to know their real dispositions? (Sanctius)
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| Job 10:6
| That thou shouldst inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
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| Job 10:7
| And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand?
| Shouldst. Hebrew and Septuagint, "Thou knowest that....and there," etc. (Haydock) --- It would be vain for me to appeal to any other. (Calmet)
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| Job 10:8
| Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?
| Sudden, like a potter's vessel? Job was reduced to misery all at once. (Calmet) --- He acknowledges that God may destroy him as his creature; but that character encourages him to hope for mercy, grace, and glory. (Worthington)
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| Job 10:9
| Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust again.
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| Job 10:10
| Hast thou not milked me as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
| Milked. Hebrew, "poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?" (Haydock) --- See Wisdom 7:1. The ancients explained our origin by the comparison of milk curdled, or cheese; (Arist.[Aristotle?] 1:10.; Pliny, [Natural History?] 7:15.) which the moderns have explained on more plausible principles. (Calmet) --- Yet still we may acknowledge our ignorance with the mother of Machabees, 2 Machabees 7:22.
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| Job 10:11
| Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh: thou hast put me together with bones and sinews:
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| Job 10:12
| Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
| Thy fatherly visitation (Haydock) but still preserved my life. (Calmet)
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| Job 10:13
| Although thou conceal these things in thy heart, yet I know that thou rememberest all things.
| Rememberest. Septuagint, "canst do all things." Hebrew, "this is with thee." (Haydock) --- I am convinced that thou still regardest me with affection, though it would appear as if thou hadst forgotten me. (Calmet)
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| Job 10:14
| If I have sinned, and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity?
| Iniquity? Punishing me for the sins which seemed to be pardoned. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "If I sin, then thou markest me, and wilt not suffer; (Haydock) or if thou hast not pardoned my iniquity: (15) And," etc. (Calmet)
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| Job 10:15
| And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.
| Woe. Thou wilt not suffer me to pass unpunished. (Calmet) --- Head. I will adore in silence, Job 9:15, 31. (Ven. Bede) (Calmet)
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| Job 10:16
| And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning, thou tormentest me wonderfully.
| Pride. If I give way to pride, thou wilt pull me down, though I were as fierce and strong as a lioness. Hebrew, "for it (affliction) increaseth. Thou huntest me." (Protestants) --- Returning. Hebrew and Septuagint, "again." (Haydock)
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| Job 10:17
| Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and multipliest thy wrath upon me, and pains war against me.
| Witnesses, afflictions; (Menochius) "wounds." (Pagnin) (Tirinus)
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| Job 10:18
| Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me!
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| Job 10:19
| I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
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| Job 10:20
| Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:
| Lament. Hebrew, "take comfort," (Haydock) or breath. (Calmet) --- Repentance is always necessary, but more particularly at the hour of death. (Worthington)
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| Job 10:21
| Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:
| Death, to the grave, or to hell, (Calmet) if my sins deserve it. (Haydock)
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| Job 10:22
| A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.
| Horror. At death all distinction of ranks is at an end. (Tirinus) --- Hebrew, "where the light is as darkness." (Protestants) Septuagint, "To the land of eternal darkness, where there is no sound, nor life of mortals to see." (Haydock)
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