“ Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? ”
Why do ye persecute me as God? - As God has done. That is, without giving me any reason for it; accusing me of crimes without proof, and condeming me without mitigation. That there is here an imp...
Why do ye persecute me as (n) God, and are not satisfied with my (o) flesh? (n) Is it not enough that God punishes me, unless you by reproaching increase my sorrow? (o) To see my body punished, unl...
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...
GOD. Hebrew El. App-4.
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? Why do ye persecute me as God - Are not the afflictions which God sends enough? Do ye not see that I have as much as I can bear? Wh...
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? As God - has persecuted me. Prefiguring Jesus Christ ( Psalms 69:26 ). That God afflicts is no reason that man is to add to...
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...
Why do ye persecute me as God? — Comp. Job 16:9 .
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...
(21) Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. (22) Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? Nothing could have been more...
Why do ye persecute me as God ,.... As if they were in his stead, or had the same power and authority over him, who is a sovereign Being, and does what he pleases with his creatures, and is not acco...
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? Ver. 22. Why do ye persecute me as God? ] Is this that pitying of me thus to press me with reproaches, and therein to think you...
Why do you persecute me as God? As if you had the same infinite knowledge which God hath, whereby you could search my heart, and know my hypocrisy, and the same sovereign authority, to say and do w...
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...
As God; either, 1. As God doth; or rather, 2. As if you were gods, and not men; as if you had the same infinite knowledge which God hath, whereby you can search my heart, and know my hypocrisy;...
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
Isaiah 51:23 ; Job 10:16 ; Job 16:13 ; Job 16:14 ; Job 2:5 ; Job 31:31 ; Micah 3:3 ; Psalms 69:26
As God — As if you had the same infinite knowledge which God hath, whereby you can search my heart and know my hypocrisy, and the same sovereign authority to say and do what you please with me. Not...