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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 19:28

Job 19:28. But ye should say Therefore, because this is my case, and my faith and hope are in God, it would become you, and it is your duty on this account, to say, Why persecute we him? We are blameworthy that we have persecuted him with such bitter invectives, and we will do so no more; seeing the root of the matter Hebrew, דבר , dabar, of the word; is found in me That is, since my heart is sincere and upright before God, and the root, or foundation, of true religion is in me.... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 19:1-29

Job’s reply to Bildad (19:1-29)Again Job rebukes his friends and rejects their assertion that his sufferings prove he must be a great sinner. Even if he has sinned, he argues, that is no concern of theirs (19:1-4). As Job sees things, he has not been wicked, but God has made it look as if he has by placing him in this humiliating situation (5-6). God has used his power against Job and Job can do nothing about it. He feels helpless (7-12). Relatives, friends and servants have all turned against... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 19:28

But ye: or, Ye shall [then] say. seeing. Figure of speech Ellipsis ( App-6 ). Supply by repeating the question, "Why see a root of blame in him? " me. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "him". read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 19:28

JOB WARNS HIS EVIL-MINDED FRIENDS OF THE JUDGMENT"If ye say, How we will persecute him!And that the root of the matter is found in me;Be ye afraid of the sword:For wrath bringeth the punishment of the sword,That ye may know there is a judgment.""In these verses, Job warns his friends that they should not make themselves obnoxious to God, because God will take vengeance upon them that show no mercy. If they do not repent, Job warned them to fear the sword; because there is a judgment, not merely... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 19:28

28. Rather, "ye will then (when the Vindicator cometh) say, Why," &c. root . . . in me—The root of pious integrity, which was the matter at issue, whether it could be in one so afflicted, is found in me. UMBREIT, with many manuscripts and versions, reads "in him." "Or how found we in him ground of contention." read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 19:1-29

4. Job’s second reply to Bildad ch. 19This speech is one of the more important ones in the book, because in it, Job reached a new low and a new high in his personal experience. He revealed here the extent of his rejection by his friends, relatives, and servants, but he also came to a new confidence in God. Bildad had spoken of the terrors of death, and now Job described the trials of life, his own life. He did so by using seven figures to describe himself: an animal trapped (Job 19:6), a... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 19:23-29

Job’s confidence in God 19:23-29"But it is just here, when everything is blackest, that his faith . . . like the rainbow in the cloud . . . shines with a marvelous splendor." [Note: W. B. MacLeod, The Afflictions of the Righteous, p. 172.] This short section contains probably the best-known verses in the book (Job 19:23-27). They are an affirmation of Job’s great faith in God. One writer argued that Job was not expressing hope but despair because he believed God could vindicate him but would... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 19:1-29

Job’s Fifth SpeechIn 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 friends to pity him; then from them he would fain appeal to posterity, wishing that he might engrave in the rock a declaration of his innocence, sure that those who read it in the after-time would feel the ring of sincerity and exonerate him of guilt. But, baffled by the callous unbelief of his... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 19:28

(28) Seeing the root of the matter.—This verse is variously understood, according as “the root of the matter” is interpreted of the cause of suffering or the essence of piety. “For ye say, How we will persecute him, and that the root of the matter is found in me.” The Authorised Version takes the other view. It seems preferable to render, “For ye say, What is a persecuted man to Him (why should He persecute any man without cause?), and therefore the root of the matter (i.e., the cause of the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 19:1-29

Job 19:9-10 Compare the use of this passage by Scott in the affecting interview between Jeanie Deans and her sister, when the latter ( Heart of Midlothian, chap. xx.) upbraids herself for having forgotten 'what I promised when I faulded down the leaf of my Bible. "See," she said, producing the sacred volume, "the book opens aye at the place o' itsell. O see, Jeanie, what a fearfu' scripture!" Jeanie took her sister's Bible, and found that the fatal mark was made at this impressive text in the... read more