Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 19:18
Arose — From my seat, to shew my respect to them, though they were my inferiors.
Arose — From my seat, to shew my respect to them, though they were my inferiors.
YEA, YOUNG CHILDREN - Margin, or “the wicked.” This difference between the text and the margin arises from the ambiguity of the original word - עוילים _‛__ăvı̂ylı̂ym_. The word עויל _‛__ăvı̂yl_ (whe...
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,...
YOUNG CHILDREN. the very boys; or, young miscreants. AROSE. would fain rise....
The estrangement and abhorrence of men. Job's complaint now is even more touching than before: God not only afflicted him with trouble but removed far from him all human sympathy. And there is someth...
Another affecting touch the little children mock his ineffectual attempts to rise from the ground. _children despised_ Better, DESPISE. _I arose, and they spake_ Better, IF I WOULD ARISE THEY SPEAK...
YEA, YOUNG CHILDREN DESPISED ME— _Even the very meanest of my family despised me; and if I rise up, they flout at me._ See Schultens and Houbigant....
3. And despised by all people, including his kindred (Job 19:13-19) TEXT 19:13-19 13 HE HATH PUT MY BRETHREN FAR FROM ME, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me. 14 My kinsfolk have fa...
_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 ch...
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...
I AROSE, etc.] RV 'If I arise, they speak,' etc.; i.e. the children mock him....
Other people are often not loyal when someone suffers. Job’s family left him alone. Job’s servant did not answer Job. Even Job’s wife advised Job to insult God. She thought that it would be better for...
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...
גַּם ־עֲ֭וִילִים מָ֣אֲסוּ בִ֑י אָ֝ק֗וּמָה וַ...
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...
_Fools; wicked men, (Menochius) or the meanest of the people, (Calmet) whom (Haydock) these unnatural children (Calmet) resembled. Hebrew, "young children." (Protestants) (Haydock)_...
(8) В¶ 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...
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...
YEA, YOUNG CHILDREN DESPISED ME,.... Having related what he met with within doors from those in his own house, the strangers and proselytes in it, his maidens and menservants, and even from his own wi...
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. Ver. 18. _Yea, young children despised me_] Fools, saith the Vulgate, who are never more pleasant than when they play the buffoons...
_Yea, young children despised me_ Or, the _wicked_, as in the margin; and as the word עוילים also signifies, being derived from עול, _gniv-vel, inique egit, he acted unjustly._ Some render it, _fools_...
Yea, young children, wicked youngsters, rude and impudent mockers, DESPISED ME, he had become a target of mockery on every side; I AROSE, AND THEY SPAKE AGAINST ME, if he did arise to assert his forme...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE NEGLECT HE SUFFERS...
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...
YOUNG CHILDREN: Or, the wicked...
"EVEN YOUNG CHILDREN DESPISE ME": The very ones who should show respect for Job and his age. "Youngsters made fun of Job instead of showing the customary respect due to elders (Job 30:1-10)" _(Bible K...
8-22 How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall...
YOUNG CHILDREN; or, _fools_; the most contemptible persons. I arose, to wit, from my seat, to show my respect to them, though they were my inferiors; to show my readiness to comply with that mean and...
Job 19:18 children H5759 despise H3988 (H8804) arise H6965 (H8799) speak H1696 (H8762) Yea -...
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...
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 Kings 2:23; Isaiah 3:5; Job 30:1; Job 30:12...
CALVARY FOREGLEAMS IN JOB Job 19:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The story of Calvary is the story of the whole Bible. The Cross is not a message relegated to the Four Gospels and brought out therein merely...