Matthew Henry Commentary Job 10:1-7

"My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me. 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? Hast thou eyes of flesh? Or seest thou as man seeth? Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man`s days, That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after my sin, Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?" — Job 10:1-7 (ASV)

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 harbor no hard thoughts of God; we will in the future see there was no cause for them. Job is sure that God does not discover things, nor judges them, as people do; therefore, he thinks it strange that God keeps him under affliction, as if he must take time to inquire into his sin.