“ I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. ”
I called my servant - He lost all respect for me, and paid me no attention. I entreated him - I ceased to expect “obedience,” and tried to see what “persuasion” would do. I ceased to be maste...
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...
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
He gave me no answer— And he answered me not, though I intreated, &c. Houbigant.
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. Servant - born in my house (as distinguished from those sojourning in it), and so altogether belonging to the fam...
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...
I called my servant ,.... His manservant, whom he had hired into his house, and who waited upon his person, and had been his trusty and faithful servant, and was dear unto him, and he had shown him...
I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. Ver. 16. I called my servant, and he gave me no answer ] Though I lay under greatest sores and sorrows, and called t...
They that dwell in my house Hebrew, גרי ביתי, garei beethei, peregrini domus meæ, the sojourners of my house , that is, those that formerly were kindly entertained at my house, whether strangers,...
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...
I called my servant, to do some servile office about me, for my case or relief, and he passed by as if he had been deaf, because he loathed and feared to come near to me; although to my commands I...
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
Job 1:15 ; Job 1:16 ; Job 1:17 ; Job 1:19
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...