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Job 19:1-3
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).
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).
CHAPTER XIX _Job complains of the cruelty of his friends_, 1-5. _Pathetically laments his sufferings_, 6-12. _Complains of his being forsaken by all his domestics, friends,_ _relatives, and even h...
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,...
ANSWERED. replied. See note on Job 4:1. MY SOUL. me. Hebrew. _nephesh._...
Job 19:7. A dark picture of the desertion of God and His terrible hostility to him....
_JOB COMPLAINS OF HIS FRIENDS' CRUELTY, PATHETICALLY LAMENTS HIS SUFFERINGS, AND IMPLORES THEIR PITY: HE APPEALS TO GOD, AND EXPRESSES HIS FAITH AND HOPE IN A FUTURE RESURRECTION._ _Before Christ 16...
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...
_THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
וַ יַּ֥עַן אִיֹּ֗וב וַ יֹּאמַֽר׃...
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...
CONTENTS Considered with an eye to CHRIST and Job's faith in him, this Chapter is one of the most interesting in the whole subject of Job's contest with his friends. Job maketh answer to Bildad; begs...
(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...
THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID. Having heard Bildad out, without giving him any interruption; and when he had finished his oration, he rose up in his own defence, and put in his answer as follows....
Then Job answered and said, Ver. 1. _Then Job answered and said_] He replied as followeth to Bildad's bitter and taunting invective. His miseries he here setteth forth graphically and tragically, gra...
_Then Job answered and said_ “Tired with the little regard paid by the three friends to his defence, and finding them still insisting on their general maxims, Job desires them calmly to consider his c...
Then Job answered and said,...
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...
Twice Bildad had began his speeches with "How long?" (Job 8:2; Job 18:2). Now Job throws back at him and his friends his own "How long?" "Rather than helping, their bitter words had only added to his...
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...
JOB CHAPTER 19 Job's answer: his friends strangeness and reproaches vex him, JOB 19:1. He layeth before them his great misery to provoke their pity, JOB 19:6; wisheth his words might be recorded, JOB...
Job 19:1 Job H347 answered H6030 (H8799) said H559 (H8799)...
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...
Job 19:1...