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1 Then Job answered and said,
2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye
make yourselves strange to me.
4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with
myself.
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against
me my reproach:
6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with
his net.
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but
there is no judgment.
8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set
darkness in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope
hath he removed like a tree.
11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me
unto him as one of his enemies.
12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and
encamp round about my tabernacle.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are
verily estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten
me.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a
stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him
with my mouth.
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the
children's sake of mine own body.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against
me.
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are
turned against me.
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped
with the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the
hand of God hath touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my
flesh?
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a
book!
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for
ever!
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at
the latter day upon the earth:
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh
shall I see God:
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not
another; though my reins be consumed within me.
28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the
matter is found in me?
29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of
the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.1
References and notes
1. King James Authorized Version
2.
CLARKE'S COMMENTARY -
JOB 19 - http://www.godrules.net/library/clarke/clarkejob19.htm
3. Matthew Henry
Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible
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http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentaries
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Structure of Job 19 |
 Job complains of the cruelty of his friends, 1-5.
Pathetically laments his sufferings, 6-12.
Complains of his
being forsaken by all his domestics, friends,
relatives, and even his wife, 13-19.
Details his sufferings in an affecting manner, calls upon
his friends to
pity him, and earnestly wishes that his speeches may be recorded, 20-24.
Expresses his hope
in a future resurrection, 25-27.
And warns his
persecutors to desist, lest they fall under God's judgments,
28, 29.2
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Overview of Job 19 |
This chapter is Job's answer
to Bildad's discourse in the foregoing chapter. Though his
spirit was grieved and much heated, and Bildad was very
peevish, yet he gave him leave to say all he designed to
say, and did not break in upon him in the midst of his
argument; but, when he had done, he gave him a fair answer,
in which,
I. He complains of unkind usage. And very unkindly he takes
it.
1. That his comforters added to his affliction (v. 2-7).
2. That his God was the author of his affliction (v. 8-12).
3. That his relations and friends were strange to him, and
shy of him, in his affliction (v. 20-22). II. He comforts
himself with the believing hopes of happiness in the other
world, though he had so little comfort in this, making a
very solemn confession of his faith, with a desire that it
might be recorded as an evidence of his sincerity (v.
23-27).
III. He concludes with a caution to his friends not to
persist in their hard censures of him (v. 28, 29).
If the remonstrance Job here makes of his grievances may
serve sometimes to justify our complaints, yet his cheerful
views of the future state, at the same time, may shame us
Christians, and may serve to silence our complaints, or at
least to balance them.3
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