The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Fashioned” it comes from the Hebrew Word “asah” which means “to make, fashion.”
Job turns his questions directly to his Maker, asking why He would afflict what He so carefully formed. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Job 10.
Job declares his soul is weary of life, and he will leave his complaint upon himself, speaking in the bitterness of his soul, asking God not to condemn him, but to show him why He contends with him, questioning whether it is good for God to oppress, to despise the work of His own hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked, asking whether God has eyes of flesh, or sees as man sees, whether His days are as the days of man, that He should so intensely search out Job’s iniquity and sin.
Job recalls tenderly that God’s hands “fashioned,” “asah” in Hebrew, and made him together round about, yet now He destroys him, asking God to remember that He made him as clay, and questions whether He will bring him into dust again, poured out like milk and curdled like cheese, clothed with skin and flesh, fenced with bones and sinews, granted life and favor, God’s visitation preserving his spirit, yet these very things, Job notes bitterly, were hidden in God’s heart all along.
Job explains that if he sins, God marks him, and will not acquit him of his iniquity, and if he is wicked, woe to him, and if righteous, he still cannot lift up his head, being full of confusion, seeing his affliction, asking God, if his head were exalted, to hunt him as a fierce lion and show Himself marvellous upon him again, renewing His witnesses against him, increasing His indignation, with changes and war against him. Job asks pointedly why God brought him from the womb at all, wishing he had died before any eye saw him, that he might have been as though he had not been, carried from the womb to the grave, pleading for a little comfort before he goes to a land of darkness, the shadow of death, without any order, where the light itself is as darkness.
Job’s tender recollection of God’s careful, personal craftsmanship in forming him, contrasted so starkly with his present suffering, captures the genuine bewilderment of feeling abandoned by the very hands that once lovingly shaped him. This chapter’s raw honesty, questioning why God would create something only to seemingly destroy it, gives voice to a kind of anguished confusion that many genuine sufferers throughout history have quietly shared but rarely dared to speak aloud.
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