16 If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.
16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
16 And were my head lifted up,
16 I try to make the best of it, try to brave it out, but you're too much for me, relentless, like a lion on the prowl.
16 If my head is exalted, You hunt me like a fierce lion, And again You show Yourself awesome against me.
16 And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome power against me.
10 Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,
10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
10 He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding;
10 He's a prowling bear tracking me down, a lion in hiding ready to pounce.
10 He has been to me a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in ambush.
10 He has hidden like a bear or a lion, waiting to attack me.
(Read Lamentations 3:1-20)
The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the weakest believer is wrong, if he thinks that his strength and hope are perished from the Lord.
11 he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help.
11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
11 he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;
11 He knocked me from the path and ripped me to pieces. When he finished, there was nothing left of me.
11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces; He has made me desolate.
11 He has dragged me off the path and torn me in pieces, leaving me helpless and devastated.
(Read Lamentations 3:1-20)
The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the weakest believer is wrong, if he thinks that his strength and hope are perished from the Lord.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 10:16
Commentary on Job 10:14-22
(Read Job 10:14-22)
Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy the work of his hands in any humble believer; but will renew him unto holiness, that he may enjoy eternal life. If anguish on earth renders the grave a desirable refuge, what will be their condition who are condemned to the blackness of darkness for ever? Let every sinner seek deliverance from that dreadful state, and every believer be thankful to Jesus, who delivereth from the wrath to come.