Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 19:9
Glory — Of my estate, children, authority, and all my comforts. Crown — All my power, and laid my honour in the dust.
Glory — Of my estate, children, authority, and all my comforts. Crown — All my power, and laid my honour in the dust.
Verse Job 19:9. _HE HATH STRIPPED ME OF MY GLORY_] I am reduced to such circumstances, that I have lost all my honour and respect....
HE HATH STRIPPED ME OF MY GLORY - Everything which I had that contributed to my respectability and honor, he has taken away. My property, my health, my family, the esteem of my friend - all is gone. A...
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,...
God's hostility to him and destructive persecution of him. In Job 19:6 the transition is already made to the account of God's hostility. The picture is sufficiently graphic. First there was the gener...
Then came the consciousness of the meaning of his calamities they were evidence that he was a transgressor. God took thus his crown of righteousness from his head, and stripped the glory of godliness...
2. He has been overthrown by God. (Job 9:5-12) TEXT 19:5-12 5 IF INDEED YE WILL MAGNIFY YOURSELVES AGAINST ME, And plead against me my reproach; 6 Know now that God hath subverted me _in my cause,...
_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...
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...
GLORY.. CROWN] probably Job's righteousness, on which his sufferings seemed to throw doubt....
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...
Before his troubles, Job was a great man (Job 29:7-9). But nobody respected him now....
כְּ֭בֹודִי מֵ עָלַ֣י הִפְשִׁ֑יט וַ֝ יָּ֗סַר ע
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...
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the (e) crown [from] my head. (e) Meaning, his children, and whatever was dear to him in this world....
(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...
HE HATH STRIPPED ME OF MY GLORY,.... The metaphor of a traveller may be still continued, who falling among thieves is stripped of his clothes, to which the allusion may be: Job was not stripped of his...
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown [from] my head. Ver. 9. _He hath stripped me of my glory_] This is the second comparison, _ab externo corporis cultu et habitu,_ saith Merlin; fro...
_He hath fenced up my way_, &c. So that I can see no means or possibility of getting out of my troubles. _He hath set darkness in my paths_ So that I cannot discern what course I ought to take. _He ha...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE NEGLECT HE SUFFERS...
He hath stripped me of my glory, the honor which his righteousness had formerly given him before men, AND TAKEN THE CROWN, namely, that of his good name, FROM MY HEAD. Cf Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 42:3....
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...
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...
OF MY GLORY, i.e. of my estate, and children, and authority, and all my comforts. THE CROWN, i.e. all my ornaments....
Job 19:9 stripped H6584 (H8689) glory H3519 taken H5493 (H8686) crown H5850 head H7218 stripped -...
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...
Hosea 9:11; Isaiah 61:6; Job 29:20; Job 29:21; Job 29:7;...
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...