In Job, chapter ten, verse one, the servant of God continued pouring out to God his bitterness and feelings of being unfairly treated. Even though Job felt that God had withdrawn His love from him, he still maintained trust in God’s justice and continued to wrestle with God regarding his dilemma.
Job’s self-consciousness makes him desire the possibility of answering for himself might be granted him: Still, he is weary of life and has renounced all claim for its continuance, he will at least give his complaints free course and pray the Author of his sufferings that He would not permit him to die the death of the wicked, contrary to the testimony of his conscience.
And yet, temporal blessing is more desirable than life. Every human being, generally speaking, is desirous of life and a long life. However, Job was weary of his life and willing to part with it. In Job seven, verse fifteen, his “soul” was uneasy to dwell any longer in the earthly tabernacle of his body. It is full of pains and sores, for this weariness was not through the guilt of sin pressing him sore or the horror of conscience arising from it. Nor through indwelling sin is a burden to him, and a longing desire to get ease from it, and to be perfectly holy, to be with Christ in heaven, as the Apostle Paul, and other saints, at certain times; or through uneasiness at the sins of others, as Isaac and Rebekah, Lot, David, Isaiah, and others; nor on the account of the temptations of Satan, his fiery darts, his buffetings, and siftings, which are very distressing; but on account of his outward afflictions, which were so very hard and pressing, and the apprehension he had of the anger and wrath of God, He treated him, as he thought, very severely, and as his enemy, together with the ill-usage of his friends.