101 "I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.
101 "I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
101 I can't stand my life - I hate it! -I'm putting it all out on the table, all the bitterness of my life - I'm holding back nothing."
101 "My soul loathes my life; I will give free course to my complaint, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
101 "I am disgusted with my life. Let me complain freely. My bitter soul must complain.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 10:1
Commentary on Job 10:1-7
(Read Job 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.