Job 19:7-29 NTV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 19:1-7

Job's friends had passed a very severe censure upon him as a wicked man because he was so grievously afflicted; now here he tells them how ill he took it to be so censured. Bildad had twice begun with a How long (Job 8:2; 18:2), and therefore Job, being now to answer him particularly, begins with a How long too, Job 19:2. What is not liked is commonly thought long; but Job had more reason to think those long who assaulted him than they had to think him long who only vindicated himself. Better... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 19:8-22

Bildad had very disingenuously perverted Job's complaints by making them the description of the miserable condition of a wicked man; and yet he repeats them here, to move their pity, and to work upon their good nature, if they had any left in them. I. He complains of the tokens of God's displeasure which he was under, and which infused the wormwood and gall into the affliction and misery. How doleful are the accents of his complaints! ?He hath kindled his wrath against me, which flames and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 19:23-29

In all the conferences between Job and his friends we do not find any more weighty and considerable lines than these; would one have expected it? Here is much both of Christ and heaven in these verses: and he that said such things as these declared plainly that he sought the better country, that is, the heavenly; as the patriarchs of that age did, Heb. 11:14. We have here Job's creed, or confession of faith. His belief in God the Father Almighty, the Maker of heaven and earth, and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:7

Behold, I cry out of wrong ,.... Or of "violence" F13 חמס "violentiam", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c.; "injuriam", Montanus. , 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 God, and of it as it were in open court, as a violation of justice, and as being dealt very unjustly with: but I am not heard ; his prayer was not heard; he could get no relief, nor any redress of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:8

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass ,.... A metaphor taken from travellers, who not only meet with obstacles and obstructions in their way, which make it difficult; but sometimes with such enclosures and fences, that they are at a full stop, and cannot pass on, and know not what course to steer: the people of God are not inhabitants of this world, but pilgrims, strangers, and sojourners in it, and travellers through it; they are bound for another country, and are travelling to it;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:9

He hath stripped me of my glory ,.... The metaphor of a traveller may be still continued, who falling among thieves is stripped of his clothes, to which the allusion may be: Job was not stripped of his glory in a spiritual sense, not of the glorious robe of Christ's righteousness, nor of the graces of the Spirit, which makes saints all glorious within; but in a civil sense, and is to be understood not merely of his rich apparel, or of his robe, which he might wear as a civil magistrate, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:10

He hath destroyed me on every side ,.... To be "troubled on every side" is much, as the apostles were, 2 Corinthians 4:8 ; but to be destroyed on every side, and all around, is more, and denotes utter destruction; it may have respect to the rein of his substance and family, which were all demolished at once; his oxen and asses, which were on one side, his camels on other, his sheep on another, and his children on another, and all destroyed in one day, and perhaps in a few hours; and also... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:11

He hath also kindled his wrath against me ,.... In this and some following verses the metaphor is taken from a state of warfare, in which enemies are engaged in an hostile way, Job 19:12 ; in which way Job apprehended God was come forth against him; he imagined that the wrath of God, which is comparable to fire for its force and fury, was kindled against him; that it began to appear, and was bursting out in a flame upon him, and all around him, to consume him; he thought his afflictions... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:12

His troops come together ,.... Afflictions which are many, and of which it may be said, as was at the birth of God, who had his name from the word here used, "a troop cometh": Genesis 30:11 ; and these sometimes come together, or follow so quick one upon another, that there is scarce any interval between them, as did Job's afflictions; and they are God's hosts, his troops, his soldiers, which are at his command; and he says to them, as the centurion did to his, to the one, Go, and he goes,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:13

He hath put my brethren far from me ,.... As it is one part of business in war to cut off all communication between the enemy and their confederates and auxiliaries, and to hinder them of all the help and assistance from them they can; so Job here represents God dealing with him as with an enemy, and therefore keeps at a distance from him all such from whom he might expect comfort and succour, as particularly his brethren; by whom may be meant such who in a natural relation are strictly and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 19:1-7

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 19:8-22

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 19:23-29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:13

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