Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Job 19:7
Verse Job 19:7. I cry out of wrong] I complain of violence and of injustice; but no one comes to my help.
Verse Job 19:7. I cry out of wrong] I complain of violence and of injustice; but no one comes to my help.
BEHOLD, I CRY OUT OF WRONG - Margin, or “violence.” The Hebrew word (חמס _châmâs_) means properly violence. The violence referred to is that which was brought upon him by God. It is, indeed, harsh l...
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,...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. See translation below....
This drew from him in his helplessness cries of wrong, which were unheeded....
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...
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,...
_BEHOLD, I CRY OUT OF WRONG, BUT I AM NOT HEARD: I CRY ALOUD, BUT THERE IS NO JUDGMENT._ Wrong - violence: brought on him by God. NO JUDGMENT - God will not remove my calamities, and so vindicate my...
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...
Render, 'Behold, I shriek “Violence,” and am not answered. I clamour, and there is no justice.'...
Job felt as if a robber was attacking him. But when Job called for help, nobody came to assist....
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...
BEHOLD I CRY OUT OF WRONG. — The description he now gives of himself as persecuted and forsaken by God is necessary to enhance the value of the confession he is about to make. Severely has God dealt w...
הֵ֤ן אֶצְעַ֣ק חָ֭מָס וְ לֹ֣א אֵעָנֶ֑ה אֲ֝שַׁו
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...
_Hear. Jeremias makes the same complaint, Lamentations iii. 8. (Calmet)_...
(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...
BEHOLD, I CRY OUT OF WRONG,.... Or of "violence" m, or injury done him by the Sabeans and Chaldeans upon his substance, and by Satan upon his health; this he cried out and complained of in prayer to G...
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but [there is] no judgment. Ver. 7. _Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard_] Nothing is more natural and usual than for men in mi...
_Know now_ Consider well, _that God hath overthrown me_ Hath grievously afflicted me in various ways, and therefore it ill becomes you to aggravate my miseries. Hebrew, עותני, _gnivetani; hath pervert...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE NEGLECT HE SUFFERS...
Behold, I cry out of wrong, crying out in complaint over the violence which he was experiencing, BUT I AM NOT HEARD; I CRY ALOUD, BUT THERE IS NO JUDGMENT, God will not vindicate his just cause, nor w...
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...
WRONG: Or, violence...
Job's cries for justice go unheard by both friends and God. "I've been wronged!...
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...
I CRY OUT, to wit, unto God by prayer or appeal. OF WRONG; that I am oppressed, either, 1. By my friends; or rather, 2. By God, who deals with me according to his sovereign power and exact and rigoro...
Job 19:7 out H6817 (H8799) wrong H2555 heard H6030 (H8735) aloud H7768 (H8762) justice H4941 I cry -...
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...
_Know new that God has overthrown me._ THE DIFFICULTIES OF UNBELIEF One thing is to be noticed, with both Job and his friends the existence of God is a part of the problem, not to be discharged from...
_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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:7 I CRY OUT, “VIOLENCE!” Habakkuk opens his prophecy with a similar complaint (Habakkuk 1:2)....
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...
Habakkuk 1:2; Habakkuk 1:3; Jeremiah 20:8; Job 10:15; Job 10:3;...
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...
Cry — Unto God. Wrong — That I am oppressed by my friends....