Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 19:28
Therefore — Because my faith and hope are in God. The root — The root denotes, a root of true religion. And the root of all true religion is living faith.
Therefore — Because my faith and hope are in God. The root — The root denotes, a root of true religion. And the root of all true religion is living faith.
Verse Job 19:28. _BUT YE SHOULD SAY_] Or, _Then ye shall say_. _WHY PERSECUTE WE HIM_] Or, as Mr. _Good_, How did we persecute him! Alas! we are now convinced that we did wrong. _SEEING THE ROOT OF...
BUT YE SHOULD SAY - Noyes renders this, “Since ye say, ‘How may we persecute him, and find grounds of accusation against him?’” Dr. Good, Then shall ye say, “How did we persecute him?” When the root...
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,...
BUT YE: or, Ye shall [then] say. SEEING. Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6). Supply by repeating the question, "Why see. root of blame in him? " ME. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vul...
Brief threat to his three friends. God's appearance, which will bring joy to Job, will carry terror to those who persecute him and fasten false charges of guilt upon him. The language in these verses...
6. He warns his friends to cease their persecution. (Job 19:28-29) TEXT 19:28, 29 28 IF YE SAY, HOW WE WILL PERSECUTE HIM! And that the root of the matter Is found in me; 29 Be ye afraid of the sw...
_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...
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...
Probably with 'many ancient authorities' (RM) we should read 'him' instead of 'me' in the second line, and translate, 'If ye say, How we will persecute him, and find the root of the matter in him,' i....
Bildad argued this in Job 18:7-10. Job warned the friends not to be unfair. God would punish them if their words were evil....
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...
SEEING THE ROOT OF THE MATTER. — This verse is variously understood, according as “the root of the matter” is interpreted of the cause of suffering or the essence of piety. “For ye say, How we will pe...
כִּ֣י תֹ֖אמְרוּ מַה ־נִּרְדָּף ־לֹ֑ו וְ שֹׁ֥ר
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...
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the (s) matter is found in me? (s) Though his friends thought that he was only persecuted by God for his sins, yet he declares that there w...
_Let us. Septuagint, "Why do we contend against him? and the root of the word (reason) we shall find in him." He provokes us to speak thus. (Haydock) --- Hebrew reads, "in me." But the Chaldean, &c.,...
(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...
_THE ROOT OF THE MATTER_ ‘But ye should say, Why persecute we him? seeing the root of the matter is found in me.’ Job 19:28 ‘The root of the matter’ is (as we learn from the context) ‘Faith in a li...
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...
BUT YE SHOULD SAY,.... Here Job directs his friends what use they should make of this confession of his faith; they should upon this say within themselves, and to one another, WHY PERSECUTE WE HIM, S...
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? Ver. 28. _But ye should say, Why persecute we him?_] _Nam olim dicitis cur eum persequebamur?_ (Tigur.) This ye...
_But ye should say_ Therefore, because this is my case, and my faith and hope are in God, it would become you, and it is your duty on this account, to say, _Why persecute we him?_ We are blameworthy t...
JOB STATES HIS BELIEF IN FINAL VINDICATION...
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, if they should still insist upon pursuing him, SEEING THE ROOT OF THE MATTER IS FOUND IN ME? If they still persisted in charging him with guilt, with harboring...
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...
SEEING THE ROOT OF THE MATTER IS FOUND IN ME: Or, and what root of matter is found in me?...
In these final two verses of this chapter Job gives his critics. warning. If they continued in their efforts to accuse him of sin, then God would certainly strike them down with the sword. Job agrees...
23-29 The Spirit of God, at this time, seems to have powerfully wrought on the mind of Job. Here he witnessed a good confession; declared the soundness of his faith, and the assurance of his hope. He...
BUT; or, _therefore_; because this is my case, and my faith and hope in God. YE SHOULD SAY: so the future is used potentially, as it is OBADIAH 1:12; and the sense is, it would become you; or, it is y...
Job 19:28 say H559 (H8799) persecute H7291 (H8799) root H8328 matter H1697 found H4672 (H8738) Why -...
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...
_But ye should say, Why persecute we him?_ TOLERATION OF INTOLERANCE One of the hardest things in this world is, for the tolerant to have to tolerate intolerance, for the liberal to have to endure il...
_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 19:28 Job uses the image of the SWORD to refer to passing JUDGMENT. He warns the friends against assuming that they can wield the sword of judgment that belongs to God alone....
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...
1 Kings 14:13; Job 19:22; Psalms 69:26...
JOB'S VICTORIOUS FAITH Job 19:23 INTRODUCTORY WORDS All of the heroes of the faith have not lived in our day. To tell the truth, we fear that the heroic faith which marked the ancients is waning. E...