“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?”
Job questions whether it is good to God to oppress him and reject the work of his hands, suggesting that such action contradicts divine benevolence. The rhetorical question invokes divine character: cruelty toward one's own creation seems incompatible with goodness. Job challenges God to acknowledge the apparent contradiction.
Church Fathers on Job 10:3
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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