Job 19:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. ”

• Job 19:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  All my inward friends - Margin, “the men of my secret.” The meaning is those, who were admitted to the intimacy of friendship or who were permitted to be acquainted with his secret thoughts, purp...

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• Job 19:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 19:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  inward . intimate. Hebrew men of my counsel. my confidential friends.

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• Job 19:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. My inward friends - Those who were my greatest intimates.

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• Job 19:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Inward friends— Rather intimate friends.

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• Job 19:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. Inward - confidential-literally, 'men of my secret,' or intimacy ( Psalms 25:14 ) - to whom I entrusted my most...

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• Job 19:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 19:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  My inward friends. — That is, my intimate friends: the men of my counsel who are familiar with my secret affairs.

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• Job 19:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Job 19:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “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...

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• Job 19:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Job 19:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 19:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  All my inward friends abhorred me ,.... Or "the men of my secret" m; who were so very familiar with him, that he imparted the secrets of his heart, and the most private affairs of life, unto them, p...

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• Job 19:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. Ver. 19. All my inward friends abhorred me ] Heb. All the mortals of my counsel, q.d. My most intimate acquaintanc...

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• Job 19:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  All my inward friends abhorred me מתי סודי, methei sodi , The men of my secret, or council; my intimates and confidants, to whom I imparted all my thoughts, counsels, and concerns. And they whom...

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• Job 19:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 19:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job Complains of God's Displeasure; Job Complains of His Friends. B. C. 1520.       8 He hat...

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• Job 19:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  My inward friends, Heb. the men of my secret ; my intimates and confidants, to whom I imparted all my thoughts, and counsels, and concerns. Whom I loved sincerely and fervently, which they so il...

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• Job 19:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Job 19:19 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

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• Job 19:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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....

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• Job 19:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Job 19:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Job 19:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Complains of the Neglect he Suffers

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• Job 19:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 6:14 ; Job 6:15 ; Luke 22:48 ; Psalms 109:4 ; Psalms 109:5 ; Psalms 41:9 ; Psalms 55:12-14 ; Psalms 55:20

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• Job 19:19 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  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...

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• Job 19:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Inward — My intimates and confidants, to whom I imparted all my thoughts and counsels.

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