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Job 10 Updated Brenton English Septuagint

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Notes on this text (1)

1 Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul. 2 And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; And wherefore hast thou thus judged me? 3 Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? For thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, And attended to the counsel of the ungodly. 4 Or dost thou see as a mortal sees? Or wilt thou look as a man sees? 5 Or is thy life human, Or thy years [the years] of a man, 6 That thou hast inquired into mine iniquity, And searched out my sins? 7 For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: But who is he that can deliver out of thy hands? 8 Thy hands have formed me and made me; Afterward thou didst change [thy mind], and smite me. 9 Remember that thou hast made me [as] clay, And thou dost turn me again to earth. 10 Hast thou not poured me out like milk, And curdled me like cheese? 11 And thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, And frame me with bones and sinews. 12 And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, And thy oversight has preserved my spirit. 13 Having these things in thyself, I know that thou canst do all things; For nothing is impossible with thee. 14 And if I should sin, thou watchest me; And thou hast not cleared me from iniquity. 15 Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: And if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, For I am full of dishonor. 16 For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; For again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me; 17 Renewing against me my torture: And thou hast dealt with me in great anger, And thou hast brought trials upon me. 18 Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? And why did I not die, and no eye see me, 19 And I become as if I had not been? For why was I not carried from the womb to the grave? 20 Is not the time of my life short? Suffer me to rest a little, 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, To a land of darkness and gloominess; 22 To a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, Neither [can anyone] see the life of mortals.

Cross references (22)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Job 7:11; 1 Kings 19:4; Numbers 11:15; Jonah 4:8; Job 9:21
  2. 2 Psalm 139:23–24; Job 9:29; Psalm 143:2; Psalm 25:7; Psalm 6:1–4
  3. 3 Isaiah 64:8; Job 14:15; Psalm 138:8; Jeremiah 12:1–3; Job 8:20
  4. 4 1 Samuel 16:7; Job 9:32; Luke 16:15; Revelation 1:14
  5. 5 2 Peter 3:8; Psalm 90:2–4; Psalm 102:24–27; Hebrews 1:12; Job 36:26
  6. 6 Job 14:16; Psalm 10:15; Psalm 44:21; Zephaniah 1:12; Jeremiah 2:34
  7. 7 Deuteronomy 32:39; Psalm 139:1–2; John 10:28–30; Daniel 3:15; Job 42:7
  8. 8 Psalm 119:73; Job 10:3; Isaiah 43:7; Jeremiah 18:3–10; Genesis 6:6–7
  9. 9 Genesis 2:7; Isaiah 64:8; Genesis 3:19; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Isaiah 45:9
  10. 10 Psalm 139:14–16
  11. 11 Ezekiel 37:4–8; Ephesians 4:16; Job 40:17–18; 2 Corinthians 5:2–3
  12. 12 Acts 17:28; Job 33:4; Acts 17:25; Matthew 6:25; Genesis 19:19
  13. 13 Job 23:13; Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 45:7; Isaiah 46:9–11; Ecclesiastes 8:6–7
  14. 14 Job 7:21; Psalm 130:3; Exodus 34:7; Job 13:26–27; Numbers 14:18
  15. 15 Isaiah 3:11; Job 9:15; Job 9:20–21; Job 10:7; Malachi 3:18
  16. 16 Isaiah 38:13; Lamentations 3:10; Job 5:9; Hosea 13:7–8; Amos 3:8
  17. 17 Job 16:8; Ruth 1:21; Job 16:11–16; Job 19:6–11; Jeremiah 48:11
  18. 18 Jeremiah 20:14–18; Job 14:10; Job 11:20; Job 3:10–11; Jeremiah 15:10
  19. 19 Psalm 58:8
  20. 20 Job 14:1; Psalm 39:13; Psalm 39:5; Job 9:25–26; Job 7:6–7
  21. 21 Job 3:5; Job 16:22; 2 Samuel 12:23; Job 7:8–10; 2 Samuel 14:14
  22. 22 Psalm 88:12; Jeremiah 13:16; Job 3:5; Psalm 44:19; Job 38:17

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 10:11 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture IX)

    Who knitted us with sinews and bones, and clothed us with skin and flesh, and, as soon as the child was born, brought streams of milk out of the breasts?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)