Job 19:13-14 NIV,NKJV

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Job 19:14

"Handfuls of Purpose" For All Gleaners "My familiar friends have forgotten me." Job 19:14 What does this amount to? As a social fact it was simply ruinous. A man without friends is without fellowship, confidence, hope. What is a house without windows looking out upon the lighted landscape? What is it to have great thoughts, and yet to have no listener, into whose eager ear the high music can be poured? Job is therefore not mourning something that is of no consequence, but is lamenting one of... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 19:8-20

(8) ¶ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. (9) He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. (10) He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. (11) He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. (12) His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. (13) He hath put my brethren far from... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Job 19:8-22

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 not feel it hereafter. It is a very common mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every creature is that to us which God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's relations and friends. How uncertain is the friendship of men! but if God be our Friend, he will... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Job 19:6-22

Job Complains of the Neglect he Suffers v. 6. Know now that God hath overthrown me, wresting him, treating him without proper regard for the justness of tile case, and hath compassed me with His net, like a wild beast which is so wound up in the meshes of the hunter's net that it cannot move. v. 7. 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,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 19:1-29

B.—Job: His misery is well-deserving of sympathy; it will, however, all the more certainly end in his conspicuous vindication by God, although not perchance till the life beyondJob 19:1-29(Introduction: Reproachful censure of the friends for maliciously suspecting his innocence:)Job 19:1-51 Then Job answered, and said:2 How long will ye vex my soul,and break me in pieces with words?3 These ten times have ye reproached me;ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Job 19:1-29

“I Know That My Redeemer Liveth” Job 19:1-29 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 kith and kin were alienated; it seemed as if the Almighty had an antipathy against him. So great was his physical suffering that the only sound part of his body seemed to be the skin of his gums and his teeth, Job 19:20 (that is, all he could do was to speak). Then he suddenly breaks into the... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Job 19:1-29

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, let them know that all his suffering was God's doing. He then passed into a most terrible description of his condition. He cried for help, but had no answer from on high. As he found no answer in judgment from God, so he received no answer in pity from men. It is out of the depth of this darkness... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Job 19:7-21

Calvary Foregleams in Job Job 19:7-21 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 because history forced its unfolding. The Cross was known to God and to Christ from before the foundation of the world. It was toward the Cross that Jesus Christ steadfastly moved during the whole course of man's history. Since Calvary and its redemptive work was the only basis by which sinners... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 19:1-29

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, the problem of his individual relation to God, but also a more general aspect, the problem of the Divine providence. In this chapter we read the solution of the first half on the basis of a great venture of faith; the second half is really never fully solved. Job 19:1-Joshua : . Job... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 19:13

My brethren, i.e. my kindred and friends, who might and should have supported and comforted me in my distress. Far from me; either, 1. In place; because they feared or disdained, or at least neglected, to visit or succour me. Or, 2. In their affections, which are far from me, when their bodies are present with me, as I find in you. But this also I ascribe to God; he hath alienated your hearts from me. read more