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

“ My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. ”

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

  My root was spread out by the waters - Margin, as the Hebrew, “opened.” The meaning is, that it was spread abroad or extended far, so that the moisture of the earth had free access to it; or it w...

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• Job 29:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  My root [was] (n) spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. (n) My happiness increases.

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• Job 29:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 29. Job's Former Happy Days. Job 29:1-6 . Job longs that he might once again live as of old under God's favour. In Job 29:4 secret means intimacy ( cf. Psalms 25:14 ). Job 29:7-10 ....

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

  My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. My root was spread out by the waters - A metaphor taken from a healthy tree growing beside a rivulet where there is p...

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

  My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. Literally, opened to the waters: continually irrigated by them. Opposed to Job 17:16 . "His roots shall be drie...

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• Job 29:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Past Greatness and Happiness Job mournfully recalls the days of God's favour, and the prosperity and honour he once enjoyed. In this chapter we have the picture of a great and worthy chiefta...

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

  My root was spread. — It is perhaps better to read this and the next verse in the present: “My root is spread out ... and the dew lieth. My glory is fresh in me, and my bow is renewed.” (Comp. G...

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• Job 29:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job...

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• Job 29:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Bitter Memory of the Happy Past Job 29:1-25 How many thousands, looking back on the beautiful dawn of life which has become overcast, have uttered the thought of the opening words of this c...

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• Job 29:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Job now moved a step forward in his reply. He was still without a solution. That of his friends he utterly repudiated. In order to prepare the way for the utterance of a solemn oath of innocence, he...

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• Job 29:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (18) В¶ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. (19) My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. (20) My glory was fresh in...

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

  My root [was] spread out by the waters ,.... According to our version and others, Job here, and in the following verses, gives the reasons of his hope and confidence of his long life, and quiet and...

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• Job 29:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  My root [was] spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. Ver. 19. My root was spread out by the waters ] Heb. Opened to the waters; which therefore had free recourse to it...

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

  My root was spread out by the waters I was like a tree, whose root, spreading out itself by the waters, receives continual moisture and nourishment from the earth, so that it is in no danger of wit...

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• Job 29:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB'S PAST GREATNESS In this chapter Job dwells upon the honour and dignity that had been his in the past. While he was sincere in what he said, and no doubt spoke truthfully, yet there is far too...

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• Job 29:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.   19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.   20 My glory was...

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

  I was continually watered by Divine favour and blessing, as a tree which is constantly supplied with moisture, both in its root and branches, and consequently must needs be fruitful and flourishing.

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• Job 29:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S RETROSPECT Takes a calm retrospective view of his past experience and life. Thus disproves the suspicions and accusations of his friends, and shows that his complaints were sufficiently we...

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• Job 29:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 29:3 . When his candle shined upon my head; that is, when the light of his countenance shone upon me, in every form of patriarchal prosperity. This figure seems to be borrowed from the lights...

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• Job 29:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 29:1-18 From these deep musings upon the nature of true wisdom, and the contrast between the ingenuity and cleverness of man and the infinite knowledge of God, Job turns to a...

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

  Job Speaks of his Benevolence and the Honor Accorded Him

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• Job 29:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Hosea 14:5-7 ; Jeremiah 17:8 ; Job 18:16 ; Psalms 1:3

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