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Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way, hedging it up so closely that there is no passage, that I cannot pass, and He hath set darkness in my paths, making it impossible for Job to continue his way.
He hath fenced up my way, hedging it up so closely that there is no passage, that I cannot pass, and He hath set darkness in my paths, making it impossible for Job to continue his way.
Verse Job 19:8. _HE HATH FENCED UP MY WAY_] This may allude to the mode of hunting the elephant, described at the conclusion of the preceding chapter; or to the operations of an invading army. See und...
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 alon...
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 ...
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,...
God's hostility to him and destructive persecution of him. In Job 19:6 the transition is already made to the account of God's hostility. The picture is sufficiently graphic. First there was the gener...
No outgo or escape was possible, for there rose a wall before him if he would move; neither was there any outlook, for thick darkness fell close about him. These images are common to express the extre...
2. He has been overthrown by God. (Job 9:5-12) TEXT 19:5-12 5 IF INDEED YE WILL MAGNIFY YOURSELVES AGAINST ME, And plead against me my reproach; 6 Know now that God hath subverted me _in my cause,...
_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'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...
Job's bewildered state: his mind sees no clear course....
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...
If a path is dark, the traveller cannot see the way ahead. If there is a fence, the traveller must stop. Job felt like that traveller. The traveller could not continue his journey. And it seemed that...
אָרְחִ֣י גָ֭דַר וְ לֹ֣א אֶעֱבֹ֑ור וְ עַ֥ל
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...
“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...
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...
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....
(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 side...
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...
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 encl...
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, amplifieth his...
_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. _He ha...
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...
According to Job, God had obstructed his path, darkened it, removed his place of prestige in the community, demolished him like. building, uprooted him like. tree, viewed Job as His enemy, and surroun...
8-22 How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall...
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 way, or...
Job 19:8 up H1443 (H8804) way H734 pass H5674 (H8799) set H7760 (H8799) darkness H2822 paths...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:8 HE HAS WALLED UP MY WAY. God’s fence had once kept trouble away from Job (Job 1:10), but it has now become a wall that gives Job no way of escape (compare...
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...
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...
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...
Hosea 2:6; Isaiah 50:10; Jeremiah 13:16; Jeremiah 23:12; Job 3:23;...
CALVARY FOREGLEAMS IN JOB Job 19:7 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 therein merely...