Job 19:29

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

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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 v...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 -...
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 love...
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 u...
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...
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 err...
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 pu...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS READER! have not you and I cause to blush, while we thus behold a man like Job, in ages so remote from the clear sunshine of the gospel,...
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 wh...
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...
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. T...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Confession of Faith; Happiness of the Redeemed. B. C. 1520....
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...
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, CA...
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 wor...
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 abou...
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 espec...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job States his Belief in Final Vindication
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Be ye afraid of the sword, which the vengeance of God would bring upon them; for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, the crimes, the trans...
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
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 th...
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 admoniti...

²⁹ Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

Related Commentaries of Job 19:29

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 19:29