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Job 10 Bible study: Your hands have framed me
In Hebrew, the preserved of "Your visitation has preserved my spirit" (10:12) and the mark of "if I sin, then you mark me" (10:14) are one verb, shamar, two verses apart. It is the verb of the LORD's words to Satan: "Only spare his life" (2:6).
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“You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.”
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“The skin, flesh and bone(s) that Satan named in 2:4-5 all come again in Job's words in 10:11.”
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What's really going on
"I will tell God"
In chapter 7 Job spoke to you, and the WEB never says God in that chapter (7:7-21). Here he says whom his words are for: "I will tell God" (10:2). In the WEB, everything from "Do not condemn me" (10:2) to the end of the chapter sits inside quotation marks: the words Job says he will tell God. They open with two requests: "Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me" (10:2) (tap condemn, contend). In Hebrew, condemn is a verb that comes three times in the chapter: here, in "Although you know that I am not wicked" (10:7), and in "If I am wicked, woe to me" (10:15). Contend is the verb of the LORD's question when he answers Job: "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty?" (40:2). The chapter doesn't point ahead to 40:2, and these notes set the verses side by side without a verdict.
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- What God's hands made
- Preserved, and marked
- Clay and dust, in Job 4, 10 and 33
- 8 questions as you read
- 12 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
שָׁמַרshamarsay sha-MAR
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "keep, watch, preserve". Strong's: "properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc." "Your visitation has preserved my spirit" (10:12), and two verses later, "if I sin, then you mark me" (10:14): in Hebrew, preserved and mark are this one verb. The first time the Hebrew of Job has it is the LORD's word to Satan: "Only spare his life" (2:6). Job comes back to it: "You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths" (13:27), and "as in the days when God watched over me" (29:2).
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Job 10 Bible study questions
- 1Job asks God, "Show me why you contend with me" (10:2). When you don't understand why something hard is happening, what do you do with that question?
- 2Job says to God, "Your hands have framed me" (10:8), and "You have granted me life and loving kindness" (10:12). What difference does it make to you to think of yourself as someone God made?
- 3Job says to God, "you know that I am not wicked" (10:7). When people have misjudged you, what has it meant to you that God knows the truth?
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