Job 19:1
_THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOW LONG WILL YE VEX MY SOUL, AND BREAK ME IN PIECES WITH WORDS?_ How long ... - retorting Bildad's words (Job 18:2). Admitting the punishment to be deserved, is it kind thus ever to be harping on this to the sufferer? And yet even this they have not yet proved.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THESE TEN TIMES HAVE YE REPROACHED ME: YE ARE NOT ASHAMED THAT YE MAKE YOURSELVES STRANGE TO ME._ These - prefixed to numbers emphatically (Genesis 27:36). TEN - i:e., often (Genesis 31:7). MAKE YOURSELVES STRANGE - rather, stun me х_ HAAKAR_ (H1970)] (Gesenius). (See margin for a different mean... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND BE IT INDEED THAT I HAVE ERRED, MINE ERROR REMAINETH WITH MYSELF._ Erred. The Hebrew expresses unconscious error х_ SHAAGAAH_ (H7686)]. Job was unconscious of willful sin. REMAINETH - literally, passeth the night х_ TAALIYN_ (H3885)]. An image from harbouring an unpleasant guest for the nigh... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF INDEED YE WILL MAGNIFY YOURSELVES AGAINST ME, AND PLEAD AGAINST ME MY REPROACH:_ Magnify ... - speak proudly (Obadiah 1:12; Ezekiel 35:13). AGAINST ME - emphatically repeated (Psalms 38:16, "When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me"). PLEAD ... REPROACH. The English version... [ Continue Reading ]
_KNOW NOW THAT GOD HATH OVERTHROWN ME, AND HATH COMPASSED ME WITH HIS NET._ COMPASSED ... NET - alluding to Bildad's words (Job 18:8). Know that it is not that I, as a wicked man, have been caught in my "own net:" it is God who has compassed me in His-why, I know not.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BEHOLD, I CRY OUT OF WRONG, BUT I AM NOT HEARD: I CRY ALOUD, BUT THERE IS NO JUDGMENT._ Wrong - violence: brought on him by God. NO JUDGMENT - God will not remove my calamities, and so vindicate my just cause: and my friends will not do justice to my past character (Habakkuk 1:2, "How long shall... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE HATH FENCED UP MY WAY THAT I CANNOT PASS, AND HE HATH SET DARKNESS IN MY PATHS._ Image from a benighted traveler (Job 3:23; Lamentations 3:7; Lamentations 3:9).... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE HATH STRIPPED ME OF MY GLORY, AND TAKEN THE CROWN FROM MY HEAD._ Stripped ... crown. A crown is an emblem of all that imparts to one grace and dignity. The image is from a deposed king, deprived of his robes and crown: appropriate to Job, once an emir, with all but royal dignity (Lamentations 5... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE HATH DESTROYED ME ON EVERY SIDE, AND I AM GONE: AND MINE HOPE HATH HE REMOVED LIKE A TREE._ _ HE HATH DESTROYED ME ON EVERY SIDE, AND I AM GONE: AND MINE HOPE HATH HE REMOVED LIKE A TREE._ Destroyed ... on every side - `shaken all round, so that I fall in the dust:' image from a tree uprooted b... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE HATH ALSO KINDLED HIS WRATH AGAINST ME, AND HE COUNTETH ME UNTO HIM AS ONE OF HIS ENEMIES._ Enemies - (Job 13:24, "Wherefore holdest thou me for thine enemy?" Lamentations 2:5).... [ Continue Reading ]
_HIS TROOPS COME TOGETHER, AND RAISE UP THEIR WAY AGAINST ME, AND ENCAMP ROUND ABOUT MY TABERNACLE._ Troops - calamities advance together like hostile troops (Job 10:17, note). RAISE UP ... WAY. An army must cast up a way of access before it, in marching against a city (Isaiah 40:3).... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE HATH PUT MY BRETHREN FAR FROM ME, AND MINE ACQUAINTANCE ARE VERILY ESTRANGED FROM ME._ Brethren - nearest kinsmen, as distinguished from "acquaintance." So "kinsfolk" and "familiar friends" (Job 19:14) correspond in parallelism. The Arabic proverb is, 'The brother' - i:e., the true friend-`is o... [ Continue Reading ]
_MY KINSFOLK HAVE FAILED, AND MY FAMILIAR FRIENDS HAVE FORGOTTEN ME._ Failed - `cease' to come to me.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY THAT DWELL IN MINE HOUSE, AND MY MAIDS, COUNT ME FOR A STRANGER: I AM AN ALIEN IN THEIR SIGHT._ They that dwell ... - rather, sojourn; male-servants, sojourning in his house х_ GAAREEY_ (H1481)]. Mark the contrast. The stranger, admitted to sojourn as a dependent, treats the master as a stran... [ Continue Reading ]
_I CALLED MY SERVANT, AND HE GAVE ME NO ANSWER; I INTREATED HIM WITH MY MOUTH._ Servant - born in my house (as distinguished from those sojourning in it), and so altogether belonging to the family. Yet even he disobeys my call. MOUTH - i:e., calling aloud; formerly a nod was enough. Now I look no... [ Continue Reading ]
_MY BREATH IS STRANGE TO MY WIFE, THOUGH I INTREATED FOR THE CHILDREN'S SAKE OF MINE OWN BODY._ Strange. His breath, by elephantiasis, had become so strongly altered and offensive that his wife turned away as estranged from him (Job 19:13; Job 17:1). CHILDREN ... OF MINE OWN BODY - literally, bell... [ Continue Reading ]
_YEA, YOUNG CHILDREN DESPISED ME; I AROSE, AND THEY SPAKE AGAINST ME._ Young children. So the Hebrew х_ `ªWIYLIYM_ (H5759), from _ `UWL_ (H5763), to suck] means (Job 21:11). Reverence for age is a chief duty in the East. The word means 'wicked' (Job 16:11). So Umbreit has it here, not so well. I... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALL MY INWARD FRIENDS ABHORRED ME: AND THEY WHOM I LOVED ARE TURNED AGAINST ME._ Inward - confidential-literally, 'men of my secret,' or intimacy (Psalms 25:14) - to whom I entrusted my most intimate confidence. 20. Extreme meagreness (Psalms 102:5, "my bones cleave to my skin;" cf. Lamentations 4... [ Continue Reading ]
_MY BONE CLEAVETH TO MY SKIN AND TO MY FLESH, AND I AM ESCAPED WITH THE SKIN OF MY TEETH._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HAVE PITY UPON ME, HAVE PITY UPON ME, O YE MY FRIENDS; FOR THE HAND OF GOD HATH TOUCHED ME._ When God had made him such a piteous spectacle, his friends should spare him the additional persecution of their cruel speeches.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHY DO YE PERSECUTE ME AS GOD, AND ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH MY FLESH?_ As God - has persecuted me. Prefiguring Jesus Christ (Psalms 69:26). That God afflicts is no reason that man is to add to a sufferer's affliction (Zechariah 1:15). SATISFIED WITH MY FLESH. It is not enough that God afflicts my f... [ Continue Reading ]
_OH THAT MY WORDS WERE NOW WRITTEN! OH THAT THEY WERE PRINTED IN A BOOK!_ Despairing of justice from his friends in his lifetime, he wishes his words could be preserved imperishably to posterity, attesting his hope of vindication at the resurrection. MY WORDS - vindicating my innocence. PRINTED... [ Continue Reading ]
_THAT THEY WERE GRAVEN WITH AN IRON PEN AND LEAD IN THE ROCK FOR EVER!_ Pen - graver. LEAD - poured into the engraven characters, to make them better seen (Umbreit). Not on leaden plates; because it was "in the rock" that they were engraved. Perhaps it was the hammer that was of "lead," as sculpt... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH, AND THAT HE SHALL STAND AT THE LATTER DAY UPON THE EARTH:_ For I - rather, 'Yet I know,' if you do not. The "I" is emphatic. REDEEMER. Umbreit, etc., understand this and Job 19:25 of God appearing as Job's Avenger before his death, when his body would be wasted... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOUGH AFTER MY SKIN WORMS DESTROY THIS BODY, YET IN MY FLESH SHALL I SEE GOD:_ And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God - rather, 'though after, my skin (is no more) this (body) is destroyed,' "body" being omitted, because it was so wasted as not to de... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHOM I SHALL SEE FOR MYSELF, AND MINE EYES SHALL BEHOLD, AND NOT ANOTHER; THOUGH MY REINS BE CONSUMED WITHIN ME._ For myself - for my advantage, as my friend, vindicating my innocence and delivering me from all my calamities. NOT ANOTHER. Mine eyes shall behold Him, but no longer as one estrange... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT YE SHOULD SAY, WHY PERSECUTE WE HIM, SEEING THE ROOT OF THE MATTER IS FOUND IN ME?_ Rather, ye will then (when the Vindicator cometh) say, Why did we persecute him? ROOT ... IN ME - the root of pious integrity, which was the matter at issue whether it could be in one so afflicted, is found i... [ Continue Reading ]
_BE YE AFRAID OF THE SWORD: FOR WRATH BRINGETH THE PUNISHMENTS OF THE SWORD, THAT YE MAY KNOW THERE IS A JUDGMENT._ BE YE AFRAID OF THE SWORD - the punishment, about to be inflicted by the coming Judge. "Wrath (the passionate violence with which the friends persecuted Job) bringeth," etc.: literally... [ Continue Reading ]