Bible Strands
Job 10:3
Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses God directly in the midst of a legal-style complaint, following his plea to state the charges against him and preceding his question about divine perception.
The words — תַעֲשֹׁ֗ק (ta.'a.Shok) means you will oppress, and תִ֭מְאַס (Tim.'as) means you will reject, framing Job’s accusation that God’s actions contradict His creative purpose.
The thread — The motif of God’s work appears in Isaiah 64:8, Job 14:15, and Psalm 138:8, where the same phrase affirms divine commitment rather than abandonment.
Why it lands — It requires the reader to hold doubt and devotion together, demanding honest confrontation with God instead of retreating into settled theology.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Cross-references
- Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
- Job 14:15 You will call, and I will answer; You will desire the work of Your hands.
- Psalms 138:8 The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me. O LORD, Your loving devotion endures forever—do not abandon the works of Your hands.
- Jeremiah 12:1 Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
- Job 8:20 Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
- Job 9:22 It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
- Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
- Job 21:16 Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
- Job 22:18 But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
- Job 34:5 For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.