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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 19:23

My words — The words which I am now about to speak. And that which Job wished for, God granted him. His words are written in God's book; so that wherever that book is read, there shall this glorious confession be declared, for a memorial of him.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 19:23. _O THAT MY WORDS WERE NOW WRITTEN!_] Job introduces the important subject which follows in a manner unusually solemn; and he certainly considers the words which he was about to utter...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    OH THAT MY WORDS WERE NOW WRITTEN! - Margin, as in Hebrew, “Who will give;” a common mode of expressing desire among the Hebrews. This expression of desire introduces one of the most important passage...

  • 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

    OH! Figure of speech _Ecphonesis._ App-6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _in a book_ The Heb. says in _the book_, using the Art. to indicate the _kind_of record, Exodus 17:14; Numbers 5:23; 1 Samuel 10:25. The phrase means merely to "commit to writing." The "words" which J...

  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    OH THAT THEY WERE PRINTED IN A BOOK!— The sense of these words, according to the translation of Schultens, is this: "Who now will write my words? Who will record them in a book? Let them be engraven o...

  • 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

    _OH THAT MY WORDS WERE NOW WRITTEN! OH THAT THEY WERE PRINTED IN A BOOK!_ Despairing of justice from his friends in his lifetime, he wishes his words could be preserved imperishably to posterity, atte...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PRINTED IN A BOOK] RV 'inscribed in a book'; but since a book quickly perishes, he substitutes the wish that his words might be graven in the imperishable rock. 25-27. Render, 'But as for me I know th...

  • 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...

  • 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

    Bildad said that everyone would forget the wicked man (Job 18:17-19). But Job did not want anyone to forget that he was innocent (Job 16:18). So Job wanted someone to write his words in a book. Then p...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    OH THAT MY WORDS WERE NOW WRITTEN! — Some understand this to refer to the words he is about to utter; by others they are interpreted generally. The former view is probably owing to the Christian accep...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מִֽי ־יִתֵּ֣ן אֵ֭פֹו וְ יִכָּתְב֣וּן מִלָּ֑י...

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (23) В¶ Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! (24) That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever! I consider these words merely as a preface to...

  • 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

    O THAT MY WORDS WERE NOW WRITTEN!.... Not his things q, as some render it, his affairs, the transactions of his life; that so it might appear with what uprightness and integrity he had lived, and was...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! Ver. 23. _Oh that my words were now written!_] This reiterated wish Job setteth as a preamble to that ensuing memorable testimo...

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

    _O that my words were now written!_ Either, 1st, All his foregoing discourses with his friends, which he was so far from disowning or being ashamed of, that he was desirous all ages should know them,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB STATES HIS BELIEF IN FINAL VINDICATION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Oh, that my words were now written! those with which he protested his innocence. OH, THAT THEY WERE PRINTED IN A BOOK! inscribed in a writing-roll, to be kept for later generations as a record of his...

  • 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)

    OH THAT MY WORDS WERE NOW WRITTEN: _ Heb._ who will give? etc....

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "OH THAT MY WORDS WERE WRITTEN! OH THAT THEY WERE INSCRIBED IN. BOOK!" This is actually what really did happen. God had the account of Job's suffering written for all time. Since Job thinks that he wi...

  • 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

    MY WORDS; either, 1. The following and famous confession of his faith, JOB 19:25, &c. Or rather, 2. All his foregoing discourses with his friends, which he was so far from disowning or being ashamed...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 19:23 Oh H5414 (H8799) words H4405 written H3789 (H8735) H645 Oh H5414 (H8799) inscribed...

  • 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

    _Oh that my words were now written! _ JOB LONGING FOR A PERMANENT MEMORIAL Job’s wish has been gratified; his memorial has found inscription on a tablet compared with which the granite rock is rubbi...

  • 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 19:23 Job wishes his WORDS could be recorded as a witness that would remain when he is dead. He refers to two methods of recording: INSCRIBED IN A BOOK could refer to a scroll, a book,...

  • 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 30:8; Isaiah 8:1; Job 31:35...

  • 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...

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