“ Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. ”
Yea, young children - Margin, or “the wicked.” This difference between the text and the margin arises from the ambiguity of the original word - עוילים ‛ ăvı̂ylı̂ym . The word עויל ‛ ăvı...
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...
young children . the very boys; or, young miscreants. arose . would fain rise.
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
Yea, young children despised me— Even the very meanest of my family despised me; and if I rise up, they flout at me. See Schultens and Houbigant.
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. Young children. So the Hebrew х `ªwiyliym ( H5759 ), from `uwl ( H5763 ), to suck] means ( Job 21:11 ). Reverence...
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...
Yea, young children despised me ,.... Having related what he met with within doors from those in his own house, the strangers and proselytes in it, his maidens and menservants, and even from his own...
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. Ver. 18. Yea, young children despised me ] Fools, saith the Vulgate, who are never more pleasant than when they play the buffoo...
Yea, young children despised me Or, the wicked , as in the margin; and as the word עוילים also signifies, being derived from עול, gniv-vel, inique egit, he acted unjustly. Some render it, fools...
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...
Young children; or, fools ; the most contemptible persons. I arose, to wit, from my seat, to show my respect to them, though they were my inferiors; to show my readiness to comply with that mean a...
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 Kings 2:23 ; Isaiah 3:5 ; Job 30:1 ; Job 30:12
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...
Arose — From my seat, to shew my respect to them, though they were my inferiors.