The Meaning of Job 10:1 Explained

Job 10:1

KJV: My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

YLT: My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Darby: My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

ASV: My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

My soul  is weary  of my life;  I will leave  my complaint  upon myself; I will speak  in the bitterness  of my soul. 

What does Job 10:1 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 10:1-22 - Soul Bitterness
In this chapter Job accuses God of persecuting His own workmanship, Job 20:3; of pursuing him with repeated strokes, as if he had not time enough to wait between them, but must hurry on to achieve His design, Job 10:5; of reversing the careful providence which had watched over his earlier years, Job 10:12; of hunting and playing with him as a wild beast with his prey, Job 10:16-17; and asks that he may be allowed speedily to enter the land of Sheol, Job 10:18-22.
As we read these complaints, we may remember days in our lives when we uttered similar ones, but we are without excuse. And when we are tempted in this direction, it is for us to remember that probably we are being tried to teach the manifold wisdom of God, and that the works of God should be made manifest in us, Ephesians 3:10; John 9:3. It will enable us to endure, if we remember that God has conferred on us high honor, by choosing us to show that we can stand the fire, like those iron safes, blackened by smoke, which the makers place in the shop windows to prove the stability of their workmanship. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 10

1  Job, taking liberty of complaint, expostulates with God about his afflictions
18  He complains of life, and craves a little ease before death

What do the individual words in Job 10:1 mean?

Loathes My soul my life I will give free course to my complaint I will speak in the bitterness of my soul
נָֽקְטָ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֗י בְּחַ֫יָּ֥י אֶֽעֶזְבָ֣ה עָלַ֣י שִׂיחִ֑י אֲ֝דַבְּרָה֗ בְּמַ֣ר נַפְשִֽׁי

נָֽקְטָ֥ה  Loathes 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: קוּט  
Sense: to loathe, be grieved, feel a loathing.
נַפְשִׁ֗י  My  soul 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: נֶפֶשׁ  
Sense: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion.
בְּחַ֫יָּ֥י  my  life 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: חַי 
Sense: living, alive.
אֶֽעֶזְבָ֣ה  I  will  give  free  course 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect Cohortative, first person common singular
Root: עָזַב 
Sense: to leave, loose, forsake.
עָלַ֣י  to  my 
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
שִׂיחִ֑י  complaint 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: שִׂיחַ  
Sense: meditation, complaint, musing.
אֲ֝דַבְּרָה֗  I  will  speak 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperfect Cohortative, first person common singular
Root: דָּבַר 
Sense: to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing.
בְּמַ֣ר  in  the  bitterness 
Parse: Preposition-b, Adjective, masculine singular construct
Root: מַר 
Sense: bitter, bitterness.
נַפְשִֽׁי  of  my  soul 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: נֶפֶשׁ  
Sense: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion.