Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 10:3

3. 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 ?

Dost thou take any pleasure in it? Hast thou any advantage or honour by it? Dost thou think it right and just, and becoming the Ruler of the World?

By thy absolute and irresistible power, without any regard to that justice, and equity, and clemency, by which thou usest to govern mankind.

i. e. Shew thy contempt of them, either by denying them common favour and protection; or by destroying them.

Which every Workman loves and maintains.

i. e. By the Methods of thy Providence seem to favour the courses and practises of wicked men, to whom thou givest prosperity and success, whilest thou frownest upon me and other good men. This may have reference, either to Iob's Friends, whose ungodly censures God seemed to approve, by continuing Iob's Afflictions upon him: Or to the Chaldeans and Sabeans, who had succeeded in their wicked attempts upon Iob: But it seems to be more generally meant of wicked men.

Marginal references: Heb. the labour of thine hands.