“ How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? ”
How long will ye vex my soul? - Perhaps designing to reply to the taunting speech of Bildad; Job 18:2 . “He” had asked “how long it would be ere Job would make an end of empty talk?” “Job” asks,...
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...
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? How long will ye vex my soul - Every thing that was irritating, vexatious, and opprobrious, his friends had recourse to, in order to s...
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? How long ... - retorting Bildad's words ( Job 18:2 ). Admitting the punishment to be deserved, is it kind thus ever to be harp...
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...
XIX. (2) How long? — Job begins as Bildad himself had begun in both cases. His last speech had been so offensive and unfeeling that Job may well ask “How long will ye vex my soul, and break me...
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...
(1) В¶ Then Job answered and said, (2) How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? Job's account of being broken in pieces with hard words, serves to lead the mind to the recoll...
How long will ye vex my soul ,.... Which of all vexation is the worst; not only his bones were vexed, but his soul also, as David's was, Psalms 6:2 . His body was vexed with boils from head to feet...
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? Ver. 2. How long will ye vex my soul? ] viz. With your furious and reproachful charges and criminations? Have I not misery enough a...
And break me in pieces with words With mere empty words, void of sense or argument; with your impertinent and unedifying discourses and bitter reproaches. These ten times have ye reproached me T...
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...
The Reply of Job to Bildad. B. C. 1520. 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 How long will...
With mere empty words, void of sense or argument; with your impertinent and unedifying discourses, and bitter reproaches, as it followeth.
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 Reproaches his Friends for their Suspicions
2 Peter 2:7 ; 2 Peter 2:8 ; James 3:6-8 ; Job 18:2 ; Job 27:2 ; Job 8:2 ; Judges 16:16 ; Proverbs 12:18 ; Proverbs 18:21 ; Psalms 13:1 ; Psalms 42:10 ; Psalms 55:21 ; Psalms 59:7 ; Psal...