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Jul

Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

My soul is weary of my life.” Job even now resolved to keep silence, yet incontinent he breaks forth into complaint in this chapter: as David; while the fire burned he brake forth. Ye will say how doth this agree with Job’s resolution? Certainly it shews, that a poor, afflicted man is not master of his own resolution, passion, or affections, but when he has resolved to be silent and patient, he breaks out, being borne down; when he resolves silence, he is forced to scream.
Therefore, learn to construe aright your own, or other folks out-breaking’s, whereunto ye are driven, and know that albeit faith would close your mouth, from expressing of your grief, yet force of tentation, and weight of sorrow and grief, will press out cries when you purpose no such thing. In such a case, comfort yourselves with this, that the saints have done so before you, and stouter than ye have been forced to express their grief: not that I justify such things, but to furnish a salve for such a sore, that pardoned saints have done so before you.
—David Dickson, “Exposition of Job 10″

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