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Job 19:27

Whom I shall see for myself, literally, "behold unto me," for my benefit, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another, not a stranger. It is a beholding, a seeing, in the supernatural manner which is often connected with visions. It is a beholding of God in the bliss of eternal salvation. So great is Job's longing for the wonderful revelation to which he is looking forward that he cries out: Though my reins be consumed within me, literally, "are consumed my reins in my abdomen," it is a consuming anxiousness which filled Job in the midst of his great tribulation; he was eating out his heart in longing for the last great day of salvation.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 19:27. _WHOM I SHALL SEE FOR MYSELF_] Have a personal interest in the _resurrection_, as I shall have in the _Redeemer_. _AND MINE EYES SHALL BEHOLD_] That very person who shall be the _res...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHOM I SHALL SEE FOR MYSELF - It will not come to be by mere report. I shall not merely hear of the decision of God in my favor, but I shall myself behold him. He will at length come forth, and I shal...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 19 JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD _ 1. How long will ye vex my soul? (Job 19:1)_ 2. And I am not heard! (Job 19:7) 3. Forsaken of men he pleads to be pitied (Job 19:13) 4. Faith supreme ...

  • 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 side,...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ANOTHER. a stranger.. pause must be made between Job 19:27 and Job 19:28....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Whom I shall see for myself_ These words might mean merely, whom I myself shall see; or, _for myself_may mean, favourable to me, on my side and to my joy. _and not another_ i. e. I and not another (s...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job turns to the future. He desires that his protestation of innocence could find indelible record in the rock, that it might stand a perpetual witness to all generations. But he shall have something...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 469 CHRIST A LIVING REDEEMER Job 19:25. _I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH, &C.— We are now come to the celebrated text which has so much divided interpreters, and which has been generally thought to express Job's strong faith in a future r...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    5. And asserts his hope of a vindicator (_go-'el)_ (Job 19:23-27) TEXT 19:23-27 23 OH THAT MY WORDS WERE NOW WRITTEN! Oh that they were Inscribed in a book! 24 That with an iron pen and lead They...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _WHOM I SHALL SEE FOR MYSELF, AND MINE EYES SHALL BEHOLD, AND NOT ANOTHER; THOUGH MY REINS BE CONSUMED WITHIN ME._ For myself - for my advantage, as my friend, vindicating my innocence and delivering...

  • 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 his...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FOR MYSELF] RM 'on my side.' NOT ANOTHER] or, 'not as another,' i.e. no longer estranged. 27B. RV 'my reins are consumed within me.' He faints with emotion at the thought of this vindication....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 19 JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    These verses may be the most important verses in the Book of Job. Elsewhere Job explained his troubles, fears and doubts. But in these verses, Job explained the reasons why he still had hope. Elsewhe...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MY REINS BE CONSUMED WITHIN ME. — _i.e.,_ with longing to see Him; literally, _my reins are consumed in my bosom._ The words “in my flesh” may mean _from my flesh,_ or, w_ithout my flesh._ Taken in th...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲנִ֨י ׀ אֶֽחֱזֶה ־לִּ֗י וְ עֵינַ֣י ר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XVI. "MY REDEEMER LIVETH" Job 19:1 Job SPEAKS WITH simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero upon our sympathies, blending a strain of expectancy with te...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH” Job 19:1 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 disdain; his...

  • 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, le...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Myself. Hebrew, "for myself," and for my comfort; not like the reprobate, who shall see their judge to their eternal confusion. Job insists so much on this point, that he shews he in not speaking mere...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (25) For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: (26) And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: (27) Whom I s...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHOM I SHALL SEE FOR MYSELF,.... For his pleasure and profit, to his great advantage and happiness, and to his inexpressible joy and satisfaction, see Psalms 17:15; AND MINE EYES SHALL BEHOLD, AND NO...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; [though] my reins be consumed within me. Ver. 27. _Whom I shall see for myself_] He speaketh confidently, as one fully assure...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Whom I shall see_ In the manner before and after expressed. No wonder that he repeats it again, because the meditation of it was most sweet to him; _for myself_ For my own benefit and comfort, as the...

  • Leslie 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 long w...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    ANOTHER: _ Heb._ a stranger WITHIN ME: _ Heb._ in my bosom...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Job clearly expects to see God after death. And he would see God and not someone else. "He himself would see God, face to face, and he would not be. stranger or enemy to God, as he was then" _(Zuck p....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    23-29 The Spirit of God, at this time, seems to have powerfully wrought on the mind of Job. Here he witnessed a good confession; declared the soundness of his faith, and the assurance of his hope. He...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WHOM I SHALL SEE, in manner before and after expressed. No wonder that he repeats it again, because the meditation of it was most sweet to him. FOR MYSELF, i.e. for my own comfort and benefit, as that...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 19:27 see H2372 (H8799) eyes H5869 behold H7200 (H8804) another H2114 (H8801) heart H3629 yearns...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Job 19:25 I. Consider what were Job's supporting convictions. (1) Nothing could be more decisive in tone or positive in assertion than the words, "I know." It is a bold challenge made by a suffering m...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Job 19:26 The happiness of heaven is the seeing God; and because our Lord and Saviour is God incarnate, therefore to see Christ was to faithful men a kind of heaven upon earth; and losing sight of Hi...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Job 19:1. _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 roadside. We...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad. His sublime faith. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: We may easily bear the unjust reproaches of men if we live in expectation of the glorious appearance o...

  • 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 1...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For I know that my Redeemer liveth._ OF THE RESURRECTION (ON EASTER DAY) This text is a prophecy and prediction of our Saviour Christ’s glorious resurrection. A sacred truth, requiring not only the...

  • 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 exasperated him...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:1 Job responds, asking his friends how long they will persist in accusing him and why they feel no shame for doing so. Even if he has done wrong, it is God who has brought about his...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:25 FOR. Job states why he wants his words recorded (see vv. Job 19:23): I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVES. The Hebrew word fo

  • The 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 his faith...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 19:1 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 reproaches (verses...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then Job answered and said, How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with your words? These ten times you have reproached me: and you're not ashamed that you made yourself like a stranger...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 26:19; Numbers 24:17; Philippians 1:23; Psalms 119:81...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    JOB'S VICTORIOUS FAITH Job 19:23 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 waning. E...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    See — No wonder he repeats it again, because the meditation of it was most sweet to him. For — For my own benefit and comfort. Another — For me or in my stead. I shall not see God by another's eyes, b...

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