Job 19:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

I called my servant, to do some servile office about me, for my case or relief, and he passed by as if he had been deaf, because he loathed and feared to come near to me; although to my commands I added humble and earnest desires. With my mouth: either,

1. With gentle and moving speeches; or rather,

2. With my own mouth, and not by a proxy.

Job 19:16

16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.