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Job 10:2

Job 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

I will say unto God, do not condemn me,.... Not that he feared eternal condemnation; there is none to them that are in Christ, and believe in him as Job did; Christ's undertakings, sufferings, and…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me - Do not hold me to be wicked - תרשׁיעני אל 'al tarshı̂y‛ēnı̂y. The sense is, “Do not simply hold me to be wicked, and treat me as such, without showing me the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 10:1-7

Here is, I. A passionate resolution to persist in his complaint, Job 10:1. Being daunted with the dread of God's majesty, so that he could not plead his cause with him, he resolves to give himself…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Do not condemn me Or, make me not guilty; that is, by mere arbitrary will. Job felt himself "made guilty" by his afflictions, which to all were proofs that God held him guilty.

thou contendest with me…