# Job 10 📖: Job Questions God
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> [!info] Table of Contents
> [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]]
> [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]]
> [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]]
> [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]]
> [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]]
> [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]]
> [[#💬 Discussion Questions]]
> [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]]
> [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]]
> [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]]
> [[#📂 Internal Notes]]
## 📜 Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
### An Appeal for Revelation
[[#Verse 01.]] “I am weary of my life; I will complain freely without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
[[#Verse 02.]] I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
tell me why you are contending with me.’
[[#Verse 03.]] Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?
### Motivations of God
[[#Verse 04.]] “Do you have eyes of flesh,
or do you see as a human being sees?
[[#Verse 05.]] Are your days like the days of a mortal,
or your years like the years of a mortal,
[[#Verse 06.]] that you must search out my iniquity,
and inquire about my sin,
[[#Verse 07.]] although you know that I am not guilty,
and that there is no one who can deliver
out of your hand?
### Contradictions in God’s Dealings
[[#Verse 08.]] “Your hands have shaped me and made me,
but now you destroy me completely.
[[#Verse 09.]] Remember that you have made me as with the clay;
will you return me to dust?
[[#Verse 10.]] Did you not pour me out like milk,
and curdle me like cheese?
[[#Verse 11.]] You clothed me with skin and flesh
and knit me together with bones and sinews.
[[#Verse 12.]] You gave me life and favor,
and your intervention watched over my spirit.
[[#Verse 13.]] “But these things you have concealed in your heart;
I know that this is with you:
[[#Verse 14.]] If I sinned, then you would watch me
and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.
[[#Verse 15.]] If I am guilty, woe to me,
and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head;
I am full of shame,
and satiated with my affliction.
[[#Verse 16.]] If I lift myself up,
you hunt me as a fierce lion,
and again you display your power against me.
[[#Verse 17.]] You bring new witnesses against me,
and increase your anger against me;
relief troops come against me.
### An Appeal for Relief
[[#Verse 18.]] “Why then did you bring me out from the womb?
I should have died
and no eye would have seen me!
[[#Verse 19.]] I should have been as though I had never existed;
I should have been carried
right from the womb to the grave!
[[#Verse 20.]] Are not my days few?
Cease, then, and leave me alone
that I may find a little comfort,
[[#Verse 21.]] before I depart, never to return,
to the land of darkness
and the deepest shadow,
[[#Verse 22.]] to the land of utter darkness,
like the deepest darkness,
and the deepest shadow and disorder,
where even the light is like darkness.”
## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary
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## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights
1. Chapter 10 is spoken almost entirely to God.
2. Job compares his formation in the womb to milk poured out and curdled like cheese (10:10).
3. Job says God knit him together with bones and sinews (10:11), similar to Psalm 139:13.
4. Job speaks of God's "loyal love" (*hesed*) in his creation (10:12).
5. Job wonders aloud why God would destroy what He so carefully made (10:8-9).
6. The image of being shaped like clay (10:9) is used often in Scripture for God as potter (Isaiah 64:8).
7. Job asks whether God's days are like human days (10:5), recognizing God is not limited by time.
8. Job compares God to a lion hunting him (10:16).
9. Job asks God for a little relief before he goes to the land of darkness (10:20-21).
10. Job's language about the grave (10:21-22) uses several words for darkness to describe death.
## 🧠 Chapter Summary
> [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way.
## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter
Christ is God who took on eyes of flesh. Job asked if God sees as a human sees (10:4), and in Jesus God became flesh (John 1:14) and is able to sympathize with our weaknesses (Hebrews 4:15).
## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application
> [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way.
## 💬 Discussion Questions
1. Job says he loathes his life and will speak in bitterness (10:1). What should we do with seasons of bitterness?
2. Job remembers that God formed him in the womb (10:8-12). How does knowing God made you change how you see your suffering?
3. Job asks God to show him why He contends with him (10:2). Why is it so hard to suffer without explanation?
## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember
- 📖 verses 1-2: Job speaks in bitterness and asks God why He contends with him.
- 📖 verse 4: Job asks if God has eyes of flesh and sees as a human sees.
- 📖 verses 8-12: Job remembers that God shaped him, clothed him with skin, and gave him life and loyal love.
## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference
- 🔗 [[John 01#Verse 14.|John 1:14]] - The Word became flesh.
- 🔗 [[Hebrews 04#Verse 15.|Hebrews 4:15]] - Jesus sympathizes with our weaknesses.
- 🔗 [[Psalm 139#Verse 13.|Psalm 139:13-16]] - You knit me together in my mother's womb.
- 🔗 [[Isaiah 64#Verse 08.|Isaiah 64:8]] - We are the clay, and You are our potter.
- 🔗 [[Psalm 103#Verse 13.|Psalm 103:13-14]] - He knows we are dust.
## 🙏 Devotional Reflection
📝 SOAP: [[Job 10 - SOAP|God Sees More Than We See]]
## 📂 Internal Notes