10:1 My soul is {a} weary of my life; I will leave my {b} complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
(a) I am more like a dead man, than to one that lives.
(b) I will make an ample declaration of my torments, accusing myself and not God.
10:1 Shall I - Shall I give over complaining?
10:1-7 Job, being weary of his life, resolves to complain, but he will not charge God with unrighteousness. Here is a prayer that he might be delivered from the sting of his afflictions, which is sin. When God afflicts us, he contends with us; when he contends with us, there is always a reason; and it is desirable to know the reason, that we may repent of and forsake the sin for which God has a controversy with us. But when, like Job, we speak in the bitterness of our souls, we increase guilt and vexation. Let us harbour no hard thoughts of God; we shall hereafter see there was no cause for them. Job is sure that God does not discover things, nor judge of them, as men do; therefore he thinks it strange that God continues him under affliction, as if he must take time to inquire into his sin.
