Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Job 19:21
Verse Job 19:21. Have pity upon me] The iteration here strongly indicates the depth of his distress, and that his spirit was worn down with the length and severity of his suffering.
Verse Job 19:21. Have pity upon me] The iteration here strongly indicates the depth of his distress, and that his spirit was worn down with the length and severity of his suffering.
HAVE PITY ON ME - A tender, pathetic cry for sympathy. “God has afflicted me, and stripped me of all my comforts, and I am left a poor, distressed, forsaken man. I make my appeal to you, my friends, 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,...
HAVE PITY, &C. Figure of speech _Ecphonesis._ App-6. THE HAND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. TOUCHED. stricken. Figure of speech _Tapeinosis._ App-6....
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...
HAVE PITY UPON ME! &C.— Nothing can be more pathetic than the repetition in this passage, as well as the immediate application to his friends: _O ye my friends!_ "You, at least, with whom I have enjoy...
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...
_HAVE PITY UPON ME, HAVE PITY UPON ME, O YE MY FRIENDS; FOR THE HAND OF GOD HATH TOUCHED ME._ When God had made him such a piteous spectacle, his friends should spare him the additional persecution o...
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...
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...
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...
HAVE PITY UPON ME. — Now comes once more an exceeding great and bitter cry. (Comp. Job 16:20.)...
חָנֻּ֬נִי חָנֻּ֣נִי אַתֶּ֣ם רֵעָ֑י כִּ֥י יַד...
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...
Have pity upon me, have (m) pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. (m) Seeing I have these just causes to complain, condemn me not as a hypocrite, especially you who shou...
(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...
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...
HAVE PITY UPON ME, HAVE PITY UPON ME,.... Instead of calumny and censure, his case called for compassion; and the phrase is doubled, to denote the vehemence of his affliction, the ardency of his soul,...
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. Ver. 21. _Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, &c._] To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from h...
_Have pity, have pity upon me, O ye my friends_ For such you have been, and still pretend to be; and, therefore, fulfil that relation; and, if you will not help me, yet, at least, pity me. “Nothing ca...
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me, namely, in this terrible plague with which he was afflicted. He begs for a show of pity, since he is already...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE NEGLECT HE SUFFERS...
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...
Here is. plea for mercy from his friends. They did not need to persecute and attack him, for God was already doing. good and thorough job. "AND ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH MY FLESH?" It seems like his frie...
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...
O YE MY FRIENDS; for such you have been, and still pretend to be; and therefore fulfil that relation; and if you will not help me, yet at least pity me. HATH TOUCHED ME, i.e. smitten or afflicted me s...
Job 19:21 pity H2603 (H8798) pity H2603 (H8798) friends H7453 hand H3027 God H433 struck H5060 ...
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...
_Have pity upon me, for the hand of God hath touched me._ CHRIST’S PASSION Apt illustration of a more perfect sufferer--one more holy than Job, and one involved in deeper sorrow. I. In many respect...
_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...
1 Corinthians 12:26; Hebrews 13:3; Job 1:11; Job 2:10; Job 2:5;...
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...
Touched me — My spirit is touched with a sense of his wrath, a calamity of all others the most grievous....