“I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.”
Job requests that God not condemn him but tell him why God contends with him, asking for explanation rather than judgment. The plea is for clarity rather than mercy: Job wants to understand the cause of divine hostility. The request for explanation presumes that understanding the reason might provide some relief or at least satisfy a need for comprehension.
Church Fathers on Job 10:2
My soul is weary of my life. Now whensoever the present life has once begun to grow tasteless, and the love of the Creator to become sweet, the soul inflames itself against self, that it may accuse self for the sins, wherein it formerly vindicated itself, being ignorant of the things above. Whence he yet further adds with propriety, I will let my speech go against myself. He as it were employs his speech in behalf of himself, who tries to defend by excuses the evil things…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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