Job 19:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. ”

• Job 19:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Be ye afraid of the sword - Of the sword of justice, of the wrath of God. In taking such views, and using such language, you ought to dread the vengeance of God, for he will punish the guilty....

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• Job 19:29 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the (t) punishments of the sword, that ye may know [there is] a judgment. (t) God will be avenged of this harsh judgment by which you condemned me.

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• Job 19:29 - 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 19:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  punishments . sins; "sins" put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for the punishments called for by them. there is. judgment . that judgment will be executed.

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• Job 19:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. Be ye afraid of the sword - Of God's judgments. For wrath bringeth - Such anger...

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• Job 19:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. Be ye afraid of the sword - the punishment, about to be inflicted by the comin...

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• Job 19:29 - 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 19:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Be ye afraid... — Job threatens his friends with that condign punishment of which they regarded him as a conspicuous example.

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• Job 19:29 - 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 19:29 - 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 19:29 - 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 19:29 - 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 19:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Be ye afraid of the sword ,.... Not of the civil magistrate, nor of a foreign enemy, but of the avenging sword of divine justice; lest God should whet the glittering sword of his justice, and his ha...

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• Job 19:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, that ye may know [there is] a judgment. Ver. 29. Be ye afraid of the sword ] Heb. Be ye afraid for yourselves, from th...

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• Job 19:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Be ye afraid of the sword Of some considerable judgment to be inflicted on you, which is called the sword; as Deuteronomy 32:41 , and elsewhere. That is, if ye continue to persecute me. So Houbiga...

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• Job 19:29 - 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 19:29 - 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 19:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Of the sword, i.e. of some considerable judgment to be inflicted on you, which is called the sword; as Deuteronomy 32:41 , and oft elsewhere. Do not please yourselves with such pretences and cra...

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• Job 19:29 - 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 19:29 - 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 19:29 - 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 19:29 - 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 19:29 - 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 19:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job States his Belief in Final Vindication

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• Job 19:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ecclesiastes 11:9 ; James 4:11 ; James 4:12 ; Job 13:7-11 ; Matthew 7:1 ; Matthew 7:2 ; Psalms 58:10 ; Psalms 58:11 ; Romans 13:1-4

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• Job 19:29 - 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 19:29 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Sword — Of some considerable judgment to be inflicted on you which is called the sword, as Deuteronomy 32:41 , and elsewhere. That — This admonition I give you, that you may know it in time, and p...

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