Job loathes his life and because of that he will give free rein to his complaint and speak out in the bitterness of his soul, Job 10:2. Because Job had by this time reasoned that he was guilty of something, He now begins by asking God to stop tormenting him or show him his sin, Job 10:2.
Even though the questions seem like insults, Job asserted that it wasn’t logical for God to oppress that which He created, Job 10:3, and at the same time shine with favour on the wicked. He asks, does God have eyes of flesh, Job 10:4, God is spirit, John 4:24. ‘Eyes’ is a metaphor that refers to God’s knowledge of Job’s predicament. He asks God if His days like those of a mortal or your years like those of a strong man, that He must search out his faults and probe after Job’s sin, Job 10:5-6.
Dummelow, in his commentary, says the following.
‘Observe that Job cannot altogether give up his conviction that God must be really just, although the reason of his suffering causes him the greatest perplexity.’
Coffman, in his commentary, says the following, concerning Job 10:7.
‘This is not a contradiction of what Job had just said in Job 10:6. Some sin, unknown to himself, Job freely admitted; but wicked, he was not!’
He says that no one can deliver him, Job 10:7, God could but please note that Job didn’t question the existence of an all-powerful and benevolent God. Notice Job says man is like a vessel of clay, shaped by a potter, Job 10:8-9. Job knows that God is the Potter and he is the clay, Psalm 139:14 and he knows that man comes from the dust of the earth, Genesis 2:7 / Psalms 103:14.
He praises God for His creation, Job 10:8, but in the next breath charges God as being inconsistent, Job 10:9. Man is like cheese, poured out by a cheesemaker Job 10:10, and man is like a garment, woven by a weaver, Job 10:11. He thinks that God is trying to destroy him, Job 2:6, hence why Job questioned why God would have created man in the first place. The answer is in the fact that God is a God of love, 1 John 4:8 / 1 John 4:16. We cannot point the finger at God and say you don’t know what it is like because He does.
In other words, he still didn’t trust that God would do what is right, Genesis 18:25. Because he was frustrated with his life and didn’t understand what was going on, he only sought to understand the plan of God in reference to his existence and suffering. The answer to Job’s supposed predicament is in the fact that God can do all that can be done, Job 10:12.
Remember Job has got no idea that Satan is the one behind his suffering and so, he now seeks to understand the concealed purposes of God, Job 10:13. What confuses him was that regardless of his righteous living, he had to suffer such great trouble in his life, Job 10:14-15 / John 16:33 / 2 Timothy 3:12.
Job began to conclude that God’s infliction in his life was His judgment, that he was in some way guilty, Job 10:15. If God had inflicted him because of some guilt, then he questioned why God created him in the first place, Romans 8:18. He feels like he’s being hunted down, being stalked like a lion, Job 10:16.
Clarke, in his commentary, says the following.
‘As the hunters attack the king of beasts in the forest, so my friends attack me. They assail me on every side.’
Job then goes back to his death wish, Job 10:17-22, but in the end, he wants God to simply leave him alone. Notice the words he uses to describe how’s he feeling. He says God brings new witnesses against him, increases His anger toward him and His forces come against him wave upon wave, Job 10:17.
Coffman, in his commentary, says the following, concerning the witnesses, Job 10:17.
‘This appears to be a reference to Job’s friends whose words certainly were, in a sense, witnesses against Job. In view of all this, Job again renewed his appeal for God to let him die.’
Job asks why then did God bring him out of the womb? He wished he had died before any eye saw him, Job 10:18. He wished he had never been born or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave, Job 10:19. He asks, are not his few days almost over? And asks God to turn away from him, Psalms 39:13, so he can have a moment’s joy before he goes to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and utter darkness, to the land of deepest night, of utter darkness and disorder, where even the light is like darkness, Job 10:20-22.
Mason, in his commentary, says the following.
‘Finally, he resorts to using no less than four different Hebrew words for ‘darkness,’ translated variously as ‘midnight black,’ ‘the shadow of death,’ ‘the land of murk and chaos,’ ‘where confusion reigns,’ ‘where light itself is like the dead of night,’ and so on. Job masses these words together, piling one on top of another for a cumulative effect as solemn and impressive as anything in Shakespeare.’
Job must have been glad God didn’t leave him alone or let him die.