Job 19:18 - Exposition

Yea, young children despised me . (So Rosenmuller, Canon Cook, and the Revised Version.) Others translate, "the vile," or "the perverse" (comp. Job 16:11 ). But the rendering of the Authorized Version receives support from Job 21:11 . The forwardness of rude and ill-trained children to take part against God's saints appears later in the history of Elisha ( 2 Kings 2:23 , 2 Kings 2:24 ). I arose, and they spake against me; or, when I arise , they speak against me (compare. the Revised Version).