Matthew Henry Commentary Job 10:14-22

"If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction. And if [my head] exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion; And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me. Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me. Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me. I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight." — Job 10:14-22 (ASV)

Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigor. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials and remaining depravity.

Our Creator, who in Christ has also become our Redeemer, will not destroy the work of His hands in any humble believer; but will renew him to holiness, so that he may enjoy eternal life. If anguish on earth renders the grave a desirable refuge, what will be the condition of those who are condemned to the blackness of darkness forever? Let every sinner seek deliverance from that dreadful state, and every believer be thankful to Jesus, who delivers from the wrath to come.