Holy Scripture

Job 10:1

A church father on this verse
“But he also said above, "God would not hearken to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges or of a thousand." How can Job speak so here? "In the bitterness of my soul," he says. Therefore it is not him who speaks but his bitterness, insofar as the reflections of Job allow us to express what he means. "Would…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 9:32B-10:1

Source: Septuagint

Original

1Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

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In context

— Job 10:1 —

2And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; And wherefore hast thou thus judged me?

3Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? For thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, And attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

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