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IF, INDEED, YE WILL MAGNIFY YOURSELVES AGAINST ME - This is connected
with the next verse. The sense is, “all these calamities came from
God. He has brought them upon me in a sudden and mysterious man...
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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 ...
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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,...
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If his friends mean in earnest to found inferences on his calamities
then he will tell them that it is _God_who hath brought these on him
unjustly (Job 19:6)....
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Job, forsaken of God and men, and without hope in this life, rises to
the assurance that God will yet appear to vindicate him, and that his
eyes shall see him on his side in joy
2 5. Job expresses hi...
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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,...
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_IF INDEED YE WILL MAGNIFY YOURSELVES AGAINST ME, AND PLEAD AGAINST ME
MY REPROACH:_
Magnify ... - speak proudly (Obadiah 1:12; Ezekiel 35:13).
AGAINST ME - emphatically repeated (Psalms 38:16, "Whe
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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...
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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...
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The friends accused Job so often because they were proud. They wanted
to prove that they were right. But Job’s troubles did not prove that
they were right....
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אִם ־אָ֭מְנָם עָלַ֣י תַּגְדִּ֑ילוּ וְ
תֹוכִ֥יחוּ...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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_Reproaches, which I endure, as if they were a sure proof of your
assertion. (Haydock) -- I must therefore refute you. (Calmet)_...
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(3) These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye
make yourselves strange to me. (4) And be it indeed that I have erred,
mine error remaineth with myself. (5) If indeed ye will mag...
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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...
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IF INDEED YE WILL MAGNIFY [YOURSELVES] AGAINST ME,.... Look and talk
big, set up themselves for great folk, and resolve to run him down;
open their mouths wide against him and speak great swelling wor...
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If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against
me my reproach:
Ver. 5. _If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me_] Or, Will
you indeed magnify yourselves against me? _sc....
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_Be it that I have erred_, &c. If I have sinned, I myself suffer for
my sins, and therefore deserve your pity rather than your reproaches.
_If you will magnify yourselves_, &c. Use imperious and conte...
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If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, or, "will ye indeed
boast yourselves against me?" AND PLEAD AGAINST ME MY REPROACH. If
they were assuming his guilt without further proof, Job consider...
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JOB REPROACHES HIS FRIENDS FOR THEIR SUSPICIONS...
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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...
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"Their tactics were clear to Job: they were acting superior to him
(Job 12:3; Job 13:2)" _(p. 85)._...
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1-7 Job's friends blamed him as a wicked man, because he was so
afflicted; here he describes their unkindness, showing that what they
condemned was capable of excuse. Harsh language from friends, grea...
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Job 19:5 indeed H551 exalt H1431 (H8686) plead H3198 (H8686) disgrace
H2781
magnify - Psalms 35:26
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 1:6; Isaiah 4:1; John 9:2; John 9:34; Luke 1:25;...