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.
Verse Job 19:2. _HOW LONG WILL YE VEX MY SOUL_] Every thing that was irritating, vexatious, and opprobrious, his friends had recourse to, in order to support their own system, and overwhelm him. Not...
HOW LONG WILL YE VEX MY SOUL? - Perhaps designing to reply to the taunting speech of Bildad; Job 18:2. “He” had asked “how long it would be ere Job would make an end of empty talk?” “Job” asks, in rep...
CHAPTER 19 JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD _ 1. How long will ye vex my soul? (Job 19:1)_ 2. And I am not heard! (Job 19:7) 3. Forsaken of men he pleads to be pitied (Job 19:13) 4. Faith supreme ...
JOB 19. JOB'S ANSWER. Here the gradual progress of Job's soul towards faith reaches its climax (Job 19:25 f.). It is to be remembered that Job's problem is in reality twofold: it has a personal side,...
Job 19:13. Then even a more touching complaint of the alienation of men from him which God has caused. There is more than impatience expressed in the words _vex_(afflict) and "break in pieces"; the w...
Job, forsaken of God and men, and without hope in this life, rises to the assurance that God will yet appear to vindicate him, and that his eyes shall see him on his side in joy 2 5. Job expresses hi...
D. HOPE IN TIME OF ABANDONMENTVINDICATED BY HIS VINDICATOR (_GO-'EL)_ (Job 19:1-29) 1. He condemns the friends for shameless abuse. (Job 19:1-4) TEXT 19:1-4 1 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, _2_ How...
JOB'S FIFTH SPEECH In this speech Job repeats his bitter complaints of God's injustice, and man's contemptuous abandonment of one formerly so loved and honoured. He appeals in broken utterances to his...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 19 JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S...
The friends upset Job because their speeches were not correct. The friends suggested that Job was a wicked man. But Job was a good, honest man (Job 1:1)....
XIX. (2) HOW LONG? — Job begins as Bildad himself had begun in both cases. His last speech had been so offensive and unfeeling that Job may well ask “How long will ye _vex my soul,_ and break me in pi...
עַד ־אָ֭נָה תֹּוגְי֣וּן נַפְשִׁ֑י וּֽ תְדַכְּאוּנַ֥נִי...
XVI. "MY REDEEMER LIVETH" Job 19:1 Job SPEAKS WITH simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero upon our sympathies, blending a strain of expectancy with te...
“I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH” Job 19:1 In Job's melancholy condition his friends seemed only to add vexation and trial. The hirelings who sojourned in his household looked on him with disdain; his...
To this terrible accusation Job replied first with a rebuke and a complaint. He demanded how long they would vex him, and declared that if he had erred, his sin was his own. If they would continue, le...
(1) В¶ Then Job answered and said, (2) How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? Job's account of being broken in pieces with hard words, serves to lead the mind to the recolle...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
HOW LONG WILL YE VEX MY SOUL,.... Which of all vexation is the worst; not only his bones were vexed, but his soul also, as David's was, Psalms 6:2. His body was vexed with boils from head to feet; but...
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? Ver. 2. _How long will ye vex my soul?_] viz. With your furious and reproachful charges and criminations? Have I not misery enough alr...
_And break me in pieces with words_ With mere empty words, void of sense or argument; with your impertinent and unedifying discourses and bitter reproaches. _These ten times have ye reproached me _ Th...
How long will ye vex my soul, torturing his mind with their accusations and insinuations, AND BREAK ME IN PIECES, crushing him to the point of annihilation, WITH WORDS?...
JOB REPROACHES HIS FRIENDS FOR THEIR SUSPICIONS...
JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD (vv.1-6). Though Job did not lose his temper at the unjust accusations of Bildad, he shows here that the reproaches of his friends have struck deeply into his soul. "How long w...
1-7 Job's friends blamed him as a wicked man, because he was so afflicted; here he describes their unkindness, showing that what they condemned was capable of excuse. Harsh language from friends, grea...
With mere empty words, void of sense or argument; with your impertinent and unedifying discourses, and bitter reproaches, as it followeth....
Job 19:2 torment H3013 (H8686) soul H5315 break H1792 (H8762) words H4405 How long - Job 8:2,...
Job 19:1. _Then, Job answered and said, How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?_ They struck at him with their hard words, as if they were breaking stones on the roadside. We...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad. His sublime faith. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: We may easily bear the unjust reproaches of men if we live in expectation of the glorious appearance o...
Job 19:3. _These ten times have ye reproached me._ A form of speech which puts a certain number for one less certain. Job had no doubt noticed about ten principal arguments levelled against him. Job 1...
_Then Job answered and said._ COMPLAINTS AND CONFIDENCES I. Job bitterly complaining. 1. He complains of the conduct of his friends, and especially their want of sympathy. (1) They exasperated him...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:1 Job responds, asking his friends how long they will persist in accusing him and why they feel no shame for doing so. Even if he has done wrong, it is God who has brought about his...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:2 HOW LONG? Job echoes the question from the first line of each of Bildad’s speeches (Job 8:2; Job 18
NOTES Job 19:23. “_O that my words were now written!_” The “words” understood as either— (1) _Those now to be uttered_. So JEROME, PISCATOR, CARYL, HENRY, &c. As an everlasting monument of his faith...
EXPOSITION JOB 19:1 Job begins his answer to Bildad's second speech by an expostulation against the unkindness of his friends, who break him in pieces, and torture him, with their reproaches (verses...
Then Job answered and said, How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with your words? These ten times you have reproached me: and you're not ashamed that you made yourself like a stranger...
2 Peter 2:7; 2 Peter 2:8; James 3:6; Job 18:2; Job 27:2;...