Job 19:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And though afterb my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: ”

• Job 19:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And though - Margin, Or, after I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh shall I see God. This verse has given not less perplexity than the preceding. Noyes renders it,...

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• Job 19:26 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet (r) in my flesh shall I see God: (r) In this Job declares plainly that he had a full hope, that both the soul and body would enjoy the pre...

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• Job 19:26 - 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 19:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  skin. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Part), App-6, for the whole body.

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• Job 19:26 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 469 CHRIST A LIVING REDEEMER Job 19:25-27 . I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and though after my skin worms destroy this body,...

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• Job 19:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And though after my skin worms destroy this body , yet in my flesh shall I see God: And though after my skin worms destroy this body - My skin, which is now almost all that remains of my former...

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• Job 19:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For I know that my Redeemer liveth, &c.— We are now come to the celebrated text which has so much divided interpreters, and which has been generally thought to express Job's strong faith in a f...

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• Job 19:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God - rather, 'though after, m...

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• Job 19:26 - 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 19:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And though after my skin. — The word skin is probably put by the common metonymy of a part for the whole for body. “After they have thus destroyed my skin,” or “after my skin hath been thus des...

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• Job 19:26 - 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 19:26 - 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 19:26 - 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 19:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (25) For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: (26) And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: (27) Whom I...

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• Job 19:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And though after my skin [worms] destroy this [body] ,.... Meaning not, that after his skin was wholly consumed now, which was almost gone, there being scarce any left but the skin of his teeth, J...

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• Job 19:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God: Ver 26. And though after my skin worms destroy this body ] Here he pointeth again, as doth likewise David,...

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• Job 19:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And though after my skin , &c. The style of this and other poetical books of the Scripture is concise and short, and therefore many words are to be understood in some places to complete the sens...

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• Job 19:26 - 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 19:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job's Confession of Faith; Happiness of the Redeemed. B. C. 1520.       23 Oh that my words...

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• Job 19:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The style of this and other poetical books is concise and short, and therefore many words are to be understood in some places to complete the sense. The meaning of the place is this, Though my skin i...

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• Job 19:26 - 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 19:26 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Job 19:25-26 I. The first point to notice is the use of the present tense by Job in speaking of his Redeemer: "I know that my Redeemer liveth." There is thus in the prophecy a distinct testimony...

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• Job 19:26 - 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 19:26 - 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 19:26 - 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 19:26 - 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 19:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job States his Belief in Final Vindication

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• Job 19:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 13:12 ; 1 Corinthians 15:53 ; 1 John 3:2 ; Matthew 5:8 ; Philippians 3:21 ; Psalms 16:11 ; Psalms 16:9 ; Psalms 17:15 ; Revelation 1:7

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• Job 19:26 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Job's Victorious Faith Job 19:23-29 INTRODUCTORY WORDS All of the heroes of the faith have not lived in our day. To tell the truth, we fear that the heroic faith which marked the ancients is w...

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• Job 19:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Though — Though my skin is now in a great measure consumed, and the rest of it, together with this body, shall be devoured by the worms, which may seem to make my case desperate. Flesh — Or with bo...

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