Job 19:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? ”

• Job 19:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  But ye should say - Noyes renders this, “Since ye say, ‘How may we persecute him, and find grounds of accusation against him?’” Dr. Good, Then shall ye say, “How did we persecute him?” When...

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• Job 19:28 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the (s) matter is found in me? (s) Though his friends thought that he was only persecuted by God for his sins, yet he declares that there...

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• Job 19:28 - 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 19:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  But ye: or, Ye shall [then] say. seeing. Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-6). Supply by repeating the question, "Why see. root of blame in him? " me. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint,...

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• Job 19:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? But ye should say - Or, Then ye shall say. Why persecute we him - Or, as Mr. Good, How did we persecute him! Al...

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• Job 19:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? Rather, ye will then (when the Vindicator cometh) say, Why did we persecute him? Root ... in me - the...

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• Job 19:28 - 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 19:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Seeing the root of the matter. — This verse is variously understood, according as “the root of the matter” is interpreted of the cause of suffering or the essence of piety. “For ye say, How we will...

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• Job 19:28 - 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 19:28 - 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 19:28 - 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 19:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (28) But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? (29) Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is...

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• Job 19:28 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE ROOT OF THE MATTER ‘But ye should say, Why persecute we him? seeing the root of the matter is found in me.’ Job 19:28 ‘The root of the matter’ is (as we learn from the context) ‘Faith in...

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• Job 19:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But ye should say ,.... Here Job directs his friends what use they should make of this confession of his faith; they should upon this say within themselves, and to one another, why persecute we hi...

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• Job 19:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? Ver. 28. But ye should say, Why persecute we him? ] Nam olim dicitis cur eum persequebamur? (Tigur.) This y...

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• Job 19:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  But ye should say Therefore, because this is my case, and my faith and hope are in God, it would become you, and it is your duty on this account, to say, Why persecute we him? We are blameworthy...

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• Job 19:28 - 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 19:28 - 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 19:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  But; or, therefore ; because this is my case, and my faith and hope in God. Ye should say: so the future is used potentially, as it is Obadiah 1:12 ; and the sense is, it would become you; or...

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• Job 19:28 - 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 19:28 - 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 19:28 - 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 19:28 - 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 19:28 - 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 19:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job States his Belief in Final Vindication

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• Job 19:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 14:13 ; Job 19:22 ; Psalms 69:26

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• Job 19:28 - 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 19:28 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Therefore — Because my faith and hope are in God. The root — The root denotes, a root of true religion. And the root of all true religion is living faith.

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