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Verse Job 19:6. _KNOW NOW THAT GOD HATH OVERTHROWN ME_] The matter is
between him and me, and he has not commissioned _you_ to add
reproaches to _his_ chastisements.
_AND HATH COMPASSED ME WITH HIS...
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KNOW NOW THAT GOD - Understand the case; and in order that they might,
he goes into an extended description of the calamities which God had
brought upon him. He wished them to be “fully” apprised of a...
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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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_Know now_ Or, as we say, _know then_. The word _God_is emphatic.
_overthrown me_ More probably, PERVERTED MY RIGHT (Job 19:7); this,
not his guilt, is the explanation of his afflictions. By his refer...
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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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_KNOW NOW THAT GOD HATH OVERTHROWN ME, AND HATH COMPASSED ME WITH HIS
NET._ COMPASSED ... NET - alluding to Bildad's words (Job 18:8). Know
that it is not that I, as a wicked man, have been caught in...
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19:6 overthrown (c-6) Or 'entangled.'...
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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 maintains, rightly, that his calamities were not due to his sins,
but, wrongly, that they were the result of God's unjust action. As the
reader knows from the Prologue, God permitted these trials...
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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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In fact, the devil caused Job’s troubles. But Job did not realise
this fact....
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KNOW NOW THAT GOD HATH OVERTHROWN ME. — Bildad had spoken a great
deal about the wicked being snared by his own sin, and now Job,
without actually quoting his words — for he uses a word for _net_
that...
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דְּֽעוּ ־אֵ֭פֹו כִּי ־אֱלֹ֣והַּ
עִוְּתָ֑נִי וּ֝...
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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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Know now that God hath (c) overthrown me, and hath compassed me with
his net.
(c) He breaks out again into his passions and declares still that his
affliction comes from God though he is not able to...
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With an equal judgment. St. Gregory explains these words thus: Job
being a just man, and truly considering his own life, thought that his
affliction was greater than his sins deserved; and in that res...
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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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KNOW NOW THAT GOD HATH OVERTHROWN ME,.... He would have them take
notice that all his afflictions were from the hand of God; and
therefore should take care to what they imputed any acts of his, whose...
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Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his
net.
Ver. 6. _Know that God hath overthrown me_] Do not you therefore add
affliction to the afflicted, which is so odious a thing...
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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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Know now that God hath overthrown me, wresting him, treating him
without proper regard for the justness of tile case, AND HATH
COMPASSED ME WITH HIS NET, like a wild beast which is so wound up in
the...
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JOB COMPLAINS OF THE NEGLECT HE SUFFERS...
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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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Job has news for his friends. He has not sinned, but God had wronged
Job. His friends were arguing that God was punishing him and Job
agrees-Job simply argues that God was punishing him for nothing.
B...
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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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KNOW NOW; consider what I am now saying. HATH OVERTHROWN ME; hath
grievously afflicted me in all kinds; therefore it ill becomes you to
aggravate my miseries; and if my passions, hereby raised, have b...
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Job 19:6 Know H3045 (H8798) then H645 God H433 wronged H5791 (H8765)
surrounded H5362 (H8689) net...
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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 19:6 Job affirms that God is just, but also that his
suffering is not because of his sin. It is God who has allowed or
brought about his circumstances.
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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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Ezekiel 12:13; Ezekiel 32:3; Hosea 7:12; Job 16:11; Job 18:8;...