Job 19:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. ”

Job 19:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He hath fenced up my way - This figure is taken from a traveler, whose way is obstructed by trees, rocks, or fences, so that he cannot get along, and Job says it was so with him. He was traveling...
Job 19:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot (d) pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. (d) Meaning, out of his afflictions.
Job 19:8 - 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...
Job 19:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. He hath fenced up my way - This may allude to the mode of hunting the elephant, described at the conclusion of the p...
Job 19:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. Image from a benighted traveler ( Job 3:23 ; Lamentations 3:7 ; Lamentations 3:9 ).
Job 19:8 - 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...
Job 19:8 - 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...
Job 19:8 - 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...
Job 19:8 - 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...
Job 19:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(8) В¶ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. (9) He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. (10) He hath destroyed me on every sid...
Job 19:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass ,.... A metaphor taken from travellers, who not only meet with obstacles and obstructions in their way, which make it difficult; but sometimes with such e...
Job 19:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. Ver. 8. He hath fenced up my way, &c. ] Here Job, carried away, as it were, with a torrent of grief, amplifie...
Job 19:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He hath fenced up my way , &c. So that I can see no means or possibility of getting out of my troubles. He hath set darkness in my paths So that I cannot discern what course I ought to take....
Job 19:8 - 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...
Job 19:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job Complains of God's Displeasure; Job Complains of His Friends. B. C. 1520. 8 He hat...
Job 19:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

That I cannot pass, i.e. so that I know not what to say or do, and can see no means nor possibility of getting out of my troubles. He hath set darkness in my paths; so that I cannot discern my wa...
Job 19:8 - 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...
Job 19:8 - 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...
Job 19:8 - 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....
Job 19:8 - 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...
Job 19:8 - 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...
Job 19:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Complains of the Neglect he Suffers
Job 19:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 2:6 ; Isaiah 50:10 ; Jeremiah 13:16 ; Jeremiah 23:12 ; Job 3:23 ; John 8:12 ; Joshua 24:7 ; Lamentations 3:7 ; Lamentations 3:9 ; Proverbs 4:19 ; Psalms 88:8
Job 19:8 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Calvary Foregleams in Job Job 19:7-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The story of Calvary is the story of the whole Bible. The Cross is not a message relegated to the Four Gospels and brought out there...

Job 19:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 19:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 19:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 19:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 19:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 19:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 19:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 19:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 19:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 19:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 19:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 19:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 19:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 19:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 19:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 19:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 19:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 19:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Job 19:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 19:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 19:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 19:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 19:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 19:8 - Wells of Living Water Commentary