Job 19:1-6

The hostility of Job’s accusers 19:1-6

Job began this reply to Bildad as Bildad had begun both of his speeches: "How long . . .?" (Job 19:2; cf. Job 8:2; Job 18:2). How long would his friends torment him? The ten times (Job 19:3) may have been ten actual occurrences, not all of which the writer recorded, or Job may have used ten as a round number meaning often. Job claimed that God had not been just in his case (Job 19:5-6; cf. Job 8:3). Rather than snaring himself in his own net, as Bildad insinuated (Job 18:8-10), Job claimed that God had trapped him in His net. God had driven him into a hunter’s net. [Note: Rowley, p. 134.]