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Verse Job 19:22. _WHY DO YE PERSECUTE ME AS GOD_] Are not the
afflictions which God sends enough? Do ye not see that I have as much
as I can bear? When the papists were burning Dr. Taylor at Oxford,...
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WHY DO YE PERSECUTE ME AS GOD? - As God has done. That is, without
giving me any reason for it; accusing me of crimes without proof, and
condeming me without mitigation. That there is here an improper...
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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 ...
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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,...
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GOD. Hebrew El. App-4....
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Overcome by his sense of the terrible enmity of God, Job piteously
cries out for the compassion of men. There is a strong antithesis
between "ye my friends" and the "hand of God," "God" (Job 19:22). T...
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_satisfied with my flesh_ Why cannot ye be sated with devouring me?
The figure is sufficiently plain. In Oriental phrase "to devour or eat
the parts or pieces of one" is to calumniate him, to accuse h...
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4. He utters a plea for pity. (Job 19:20-22)
TEXT 19:20-22
20 MY BONE CLEAVETH TO MY SKIN AND TO MY FLESH,
And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye...
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_WHY DO YE PERSECUTE ME AS GOD, AND ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH MY FLESH?_
As God - has persecuted me. Prefiguring Jesus Christ (Psalms 69:26).
That God afflicts is no reason that man is to add to a suffe...
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19:22 flesh? (c-14) This would mean 'slander me.' see Daniel 3:8 ....
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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...
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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...
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Job loved his three friends. They came a long way to comfort him (Job
2:11). And they sat with him silently for a long time (Job 2:13). But
their speeches did not help him. The friends accused Job. An...
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WHY DO YE PERSECUTE ME AS GOD? — Comp. Job 16:9....
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לָ֭מָּה תִּרְדְּפֻ֣נִי כְמֹו ־אֵ֑ל
וּ֝ מִ בְּ
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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Why do ye persecute me as (n) God, and are not satisfied with my (o)
flesh?
(n) Is it not enough that God punishes me, unless you by reproaching
increase my sorrow?
(o) To see my body punished, unle...
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_Flesh? acting with the like inhumanity towards me. Am I not then
sufficiently tormented in you opinion, that you insult over my
distress? (Calmet)_...
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(21) Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the
hand of God hath touched me. (22) Why do ye persecute me as God, and
are not satisfied with my flesh?
Nothing could have been more...
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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...
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WHY DO YE PERSECUTE ME AS GOD,.... As if they were in his stead, or
had the same power and authority over him, who is a sovereign Being,
and does what he pleases with his creatures, and is not account...
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Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Ver. 22. _Why do ye persecute me as God?_] Is this that pitying of me
thus to press me with reproaches, and therein to think you gr...
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Why do ye persecute me as God, why should they assume divine authority
in adding their persecution to that which the Lord had laid upon him,
AND ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH MY FLESH? Though they were gnawi...
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JOB COMPLAINS OF THE NEGLECT HE SUFFERS...
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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...
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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...
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AS GOD; either,
1. As God doth; or rather,
2. As if you were gods, and not men; as if you had the same infinite
knowledge which God hath, whereby you can search my heart, and know my
hypocrisy; and t...
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Job 19:22 persecute H7291 (H8799) God H410 satisfied H7646 (H8799)
flesh H1320
persecute - Job 10:16
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:22 WHY ARE YOU NOT SATISFIED WITH MY FLESH?
Job’s friends seem so convinced that he has sinned and that his
suffering represents God’s judgment. Job asks why they continue to
pursue...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 51:23; Job 10:16; Job 16:13; Job 16:14; Job 2:5;...
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As God — As if you had the same infinite knowledge which God hath,
whereby you can search my heart and know my hypocrisy, and the same
sovereign authority to say and do what you please with me. Not
sa...