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Verse Job 19:7. _I CRY OUT OF WRONG_] I complain of violence and of
injustice; but no one comes to my help....
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BEHOLD, I CRY OUT OF WRONG - Margin, or “violence.” The Hebrew
word (חמס _châmâs_) means properly violence. The violence
referred to is that which was brought upon him by God. It is, indeed,
harsh l...
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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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BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. See translation below....
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This drew from him in his helplessness cries of wrong, which were
unheeded....
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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...
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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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_BEHOLD, I CRY OUT OF WRONG, BUT I AM NOT HEARD: I CRY ALOUD, BUT
THERE IS NO JUDGMENT._
Wrong - violence: brought on him by God.
NO JUDGMENT - God will not remove my calamities, and so vindicate my...
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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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Render, 'Behold, I shriek “Violence,” and am not answered. I
clamour, and there is no justice.'...
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BEHOLD I CRY OUT OF WRONG. — The description he now gives of himself
as persecuted and forsaken by God is necessary to enhance the value of
the confession he is about to make. Severely has God dealt w...
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הֵ֤ן אֶצְעַ֣ק חָ֭מָס וְ לֹ֣א אֵעָנֶ֑ה
אֲ֝שַׁו
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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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_Hear. Jeremias makes the same complaint, Lamentations iii. 8.
(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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BEHOLD, I CRY OUT OF WRONG,.... Or of "violence" m, or injury done him
by the Sabeans and Chaldeans upon his substance, and by Satan upon his
health; this he cried out and complained of in prayer to G...
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Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but
[there is] no judgment.
Ver. 7. _Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard_] Nothing is
more natural and usual than for men in mi...
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_Know now_ Consider well, _that God hath overthrown me_ Hath
grievously afflicted me in various ways, and therefore it ill becomes
you to aggravate my miseries. Hebrew, עותני, _gnivetani; hath
pervert...
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JOB COMPLAINS OF THE NEGLECT HE SUFFERS...
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Behold, I cry out of wrong, crying out in complaint over the violence
which he was experiencing, BUT I AM NOT HEARD; I CRY ALOUD, BUT THERE
IS NO JUDGMENT, God will not vindicate his just cause, nor w...
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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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WRONG:
Or, violence...
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Job's cries for justice go unheard by both friends and God. "I've been
wronged!...
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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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I CRY OUT, to wit, unto God by prayer or appeal. OF WRONG; that I am
oppressed, either,
1. By my friends; or rather,
2. By God, who deals with me according to his sovereign power and
exact and rigoro...
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Job 19:7 out H6817 (H8799) wrong H2555 heard H6030 (H8735) aloud H7768
(H8762) justice H4941
I cry -...
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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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_Know new that God has overthrown me._
THE DIFFICULTIES OF UNBELIEF
One thing is to be noticed, with both Job and his friends the
existence of God is a part of the problem, not to be discharged from...
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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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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:7 I CRY OUT, “VIOLENCE!” Habakkuk opens his
prophecy with a similar complaint (Habakkuk 1:2)....
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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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Habakkuk 1:2; Habakkuk 1:3; Jeremiah 20:8; Job 10:15; Job 10:3;...
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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...
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Cry — Unto God. Wrong — That I am oppressed by my friends....