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It traces the defeat to God, and means really, 'Show me wherefore Thou contendest with me. No doubt it runs perilously near to repeating the old complaints at Kadesh and elsewhere, which are almost verbally reproduced in its first words.
Then I can plead with God, even though in wild words like Job; and ask, What is the meaning of this sorrow? What have I done? What should I do? I will say unto God, "Do not condemn me; show me wherefore Thou contendest with me. Surely I would speak unto the Almighty; I desire to reason with God."
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. 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? Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
He has to lament, 'I have smitten your children, and they have received no correction. The question 'Wherefore? is asked in very various tones, but none of them has in it the accent of true conviction; and there is a whole world of difference between the lowly petition, 'Show me wherefore Thou contendest with me, and the curt, self-complacent brushing aside of God's merciful threatenings in the text.
They are in the dark, and cannot tell' why the Lord dispenseth so towards them; "Why," said Heman, Ps. xviii. 14, "castest thou off my soul? why holdest thou thy face from me?" They cannot understand wherefore it is. So Job cried out, "shew me wherefore thou contendest with me," Job x. 2. They may also be walking, in the mean while, without light or counsel, so as they shall not know what to do.
'But why, I asked, 'if thou really believest what thou contendest for, namely, that their situation is as good as thine? But these questions were too close, and he did not know what to say." "4th Mo. 23d. Friend K. drank tea here last night.
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