“ My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. ”
My kinsfolk have failed - My neighbors ( קרובי qârôbāy ), those who were near to me. It may refer to “nearness” of affinity, friendship, or residence. The essential idea is that of “nearness...
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 s...
Note the Alternation in Job 19:13-14 .
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. My kinsfolk have failed - Literally, departed: they have all left my house, now there is no more hope of gain.
My kinsfolk have failed— Have departed. Houbigant. He means to say, that his friends had quite deserted him; had ceased from their office, according to the immediate meaning of the Hebrew word חד...
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. Failed - `cease' to come to me.
Job's Fifth Speech In 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...
XVI. "MY REDEEMER LIVETH" Job 19:1-29 Job SPEAKS WITH simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero upon our sympathies, blending a strain of expectanc...
“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 dis...
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, l...
(8) В¶ 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 sid...
My kinsfolk have failed ,.... Or "ceased" a, not to be, or that they were dead, which is sometimes the sense of the word; but they ceased from visiting him, or doing any good office for him; those t...
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. Ver. 14. My kinsfolk have failed ] scil. In courtesy, as Ruth's kinsman did. Job had many kinsfolk, but few friends; and this wa...
My kinsfolk Whom nature inclined to love and befriend me; have failed To perform the offices of humanity which they owed me: and my familiar friends To whom I was united by a stronger bond than...
JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD (vv.1-6). Though Job did not lose his temper at the unjust accusations of Bildad, he shows here that the reproaches of his friends have struck deeply into his soul. "How lo...
Job Complains of God's Displeasure; Job Complains of His Friends. B. C. 1520. 8 He hat...
My kinsfolk have failed, to wit, to perform the offices of humanity and friendship which they owe to me. Have forgotten me, i.e. neglect and disregard me as much as if they had quite forgotten me...
Notes Job 19:23 . “ O that my words were now written! ” The “words” understood as either— (1) Those now to be uttered . So JEROME, PISCATOR, CARYL, HENRY, &c. As an everlasting monument of...
Job 19:1-2 . Then, Job answered and said, How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? They struck at him with their hard words, as if they were breaking stones on the roadsid...
Job 19:3 . These ten times have ye reproached me. A form of speech which puts a certain number for one less certain. Job had no doubt noticed about ten principal arguments levelled against him....
Then Job answered and said. Complaints and confidences I. Job bitterly complaining. 1. He complains of the conduct of his friends, and especially their want of sympathy. (1) They exaspera...
EXPOSITION Job 19:1-18 Job begins his answer to Bildad's second speech by an expostulation against the unkindness of his friends, who break him in pieces, and torture him, with their reproa...
Job Complains of the Neglect he Suffers
2 Samuel 16:23 ; Jeremiah 20:10 ; John 13:18 ; Micah 7:5 ; Micah 7:6 ; Matthew 10:21 ; Proverbs 18:24 ; Psalms 38:11 ; Psalms 55:12-14
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 there...