Job 10:3
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New International Version (©1984)
Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'Is it right for You indeed to oppress, To reject the labor of Your hands, And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
What do you gain by mistreating me, by rejecting the work of your hands while you favor the plans of the wicked?

King James Bible
Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

American King James Version
Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wicked?

American Standard Version
Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

Bible in Basic English
What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?

Darby Bible Translation
Doth it please thee to oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

English Revised Version
Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

Webster's Bible Translation
Is it good to thee that thou shouldst oppress, that thou shouldst despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

World English Bible
Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

Young's Literal Translation
Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?

Geneva Study Bible

Is it {d} good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the {e} work of thine hands, and shine upon the {f} counsel of the wicked?

(d) Is it agreeable to your justice to do me wrong?

(e) Will you be without compassions?

(f) Will you gratify the wicked and condemn me?

Wesley's Notes

10:3 Good - Dost thou take any pleasure in it? Far be it from Job, to think that God did him wrong. But he is at a loss to reconcile his providences with his justice. And so other good men have often been, and will be, until the day shall declare it.

King James Translators' Notes

work: Heb. labour

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. Job is unwilling to think God can have pleasure in using His power to "oppress" the weak, and to treat man, the work of His own hands, as of no value (Job 10:8; Ps 138:8).

shine upon-favor with prosperity (Ps 50:2).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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.


Job 9:22 "It is all one; therefore I say, 'He destroys the guiltless and the wicked.'
Job 10:8 'Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, And would You destroy me?
Job 14:15 "You will call, and I will answer You; You will long for the work of Your hands.
Job 16:11 "God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 19:6 Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me.
Job 21:16 "Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand; The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 22:18 "Yet He filled their houses with good things; But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 27:2 "As God lives, who has taken away my right, And the Almighty, who has embittered my soul,
Psalm 138:8 The LORD will accomplish what concerns me; Your lovingkindness, O LORD, is everlasting; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.
Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand. (NASB ©1995)

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Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

Is it good 34:5-7,18,19 36:7-9,17,18 40:2,8 La 3:2-18

despise Ps 69:33

the work. Heb. the labour 14:15 34:19 Ps 138:8 Isa 64:8 1Pe 4:19

shine upon 8:20 Jer 12:1-3

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