Job knew his own conscience. The friends did not need to accuse him. And they did not need to speak so many times. They were trying to force Job to agree with them. But Job was suffering. They ought to have shown more sympathy.
Verse Job 19:4. _AND BE IT INDEED_ THAT _I HAVE ERRED_] Suppose indeed that I have been mistaken in any thing, that in the simplicity of my heart I have gone astray, and that this matter remains with...
AND BE IT INDEED THAT I HAVE ERRED - Admitting that I have erred, it is my own concern. You have a right to reproach and revile me in this manner. MINE ERROR ABIDETH WITH MYSELF - I must abide the con...
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,...
ERRED... ERROR. Hebrew. _shaga._ App-44. REMAINETH WITH MYSELF: i.e. is mine own affair....
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...
In this verse Job must mean to repudiate the offences insinuated against him. The precise force of the second clause, however, is obscure. It might mean, "my error is my own and no matter for your int...
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...
_AND BE IT INDEED THAT I HAVE ERRED, MINE ERROR REMAINETH WITH MYSELF._ Erred. The Hebrew expresses unconscious error х_ SHAAGAAH_ (H7686)]. Job was unconscious of willful sin. REMAINETH - literall...
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...
MINE ERROR REMAINETH WITH MYSELF] i.e. 'is my own affair,' or, perhaps, 'injures myself alone.'...
וְ אַף ־אָמְנָ֥ם שָׁגִ֑יתִי אִ֝תִּ֗י תָּלִ֥ין...
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...
And be it indeed [that] I have erred, mine error (b) remaineth with myself. (b) That is, I myself will be punished for it, or you have not yet consulted it....
_With me. I alone am answerable for it. But I am no wiser for your remarks. If I have sinned, have I not been sufficiently punished? (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "Yea, truly, I was under a mistake; and th...
(3) These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. (4) And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. (5) If indeed ye will mag...
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...
AND BE IT INDEED [THAT] I HAVE ERRED,.... Which is a concession for argument's sake, but not an acknowledgment that he had erred; though it is possible he might have erred, and it is certain he did in...
And be it indeed [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. Ver. 4. _And be it indeed that I have erred_] Of human frailty; for that there is any way of wickedness in me (as you would hav...
_Be it that I have erred_, &c. If I have sinned, I myself suffer for my sins, and therefore deserve your pity rather than your reproaches. _If you will magnify yourselves_, &c. Use imperious and conte...
JOB REPROACHES HIS FRIENDS FOR THEIR SUSPICIONS...
And be it indeed that I have erred, for Job had no intention of denying his sinfulness in general, MINE ERROR REMAINETH WITH MYSELF, he alone was conscious of it, he was not trying to lead others astr...
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...
"EVEN IF. HAVE TRULY ERRED, MY ERROR LODGES WITH ME": Job argues that even "if" he had sinned, it was between him and God and was not their business....
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...
If my opinion in this point be faulty and erroneous, as you pretend it is. Or, if I have sinned, (for sin is oft called error in Scripture,) and am therefore punished. MINE ERROR REMAINETH WITH MYSELF...
Job 19:4 indeed H551 erred H7686 (H8804) error H4879 remains H3885 (H8799) I have erred - Job 11:3-6
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 Corinthians 5:10; 2 Samuel 24:17; Ezekiel 18:4; Galatians 6:5;...
Erred — If I have sinned, I myself suffer for my sins, and therefore deserve your pity rather than reproaches....