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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 19:26

In my flesh] rather, 'without' or 'apart from my flesh,' i.e. after death.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 19:26. _AND_ THOUGH _AFTER MY SKIN_ WORMS _DESTROY THIS_ BODY] _My_ _skin_, which is now almost all that remains of my former self, except the bones; see Job 19:20. _They destroy this _- no...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THOUGH - Margin, Or, after I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh shall I see God. This verse has given not less perplexity than the preceding. Noyes renders it, And th...

  • 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

    SKIN. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), App-6, for the whole body....

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and_though _after my skin_worms _destroy_ See trans. above. The word _destroy_means _to break off_, strike down or off, as branches from a tree (Isaiah 10:34). The words literally run, _and after my...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 469 CHRIST A LIVING REDEEMER Job 19:25. _I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH, &C.— We are now come to the celebrated text which has so much divided interpreters, and which has been generally thought to express Job's strong faith in a future r...

  • 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

    _AND THOUGH AFTER MY SKIN WORMS DESTROY THIS BODY, YET IN MY FLESH SHALL I SEE GOD:_ And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God - rather, 'though after, my skin...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    19:26 flesh (f-15) Or 'yet with my flesh.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    These verses may be the most important verses in the Book of Job. Elsewhere Job explained his troubles, fears and doubts. But in these verses, Job explained the reasons why he still had hope. Elsewhe...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND THOUGH AFTER MY SKIN. — The word _skin_ is probably put by the common metonymy of a part for the whole for _body._ “After they have thus destroyed my skin,” or “after my skin hath been thus destro...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אַחַ֣ר עֹ֖ורִֽי נִקְּפוּ ־זֹ֑את וּ֝ מִ

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet (r) in my flesh shall I see God: (r) In this Job declares plainly that he had a full hope, that both the soul and body would enjoy the pres...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    And I. Septuagint, "But he will raise up my body or skin, which has sustained these things. This now has been accomplished for me by the Lord; (27) which I know within myself, which my eyes have seen,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (25) For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: (26) And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: (27) Whom I s...

  • 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

    AND THOUGH AFTER MY SKIN [WORMS] DESTROY THIS [BODY],.... Meaning not, that after his skin was wholly consumed now, which was almost gone, there being scarce any left but the skin of his teeth, Job 1...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God: _Ver 26. And though after my skin worms destroy this body_] Here he pointeth again, as doth likewise David, wh...

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

    _And though after my skin_, &c. The style of this and other poetical books of the Scripture is concise and short, and therefore many words are to be understood in some places to complete the sense. Th...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And though after my skin worms destroy this body, literally, "and afterward will with my skin be surrounded this" (body). He is sure that there will be a glorious resurrection of the body on the Last...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB STATES HIS BELIEF IN FINAL VINDICATION...

  • 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)

    AND THOUGH AFTER MY SKIN WORMS DESTROY THIS BODY, YET IN MY FLESH SHALL I SEE GOD: Or, After I shall awake though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh shall I see God...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "EVEN AFTER MY SKIN IS DESTROYED, YET FROM MY FLESH. SHALL SEE GOD": This is. powerful insight into Job's understanding and what men knew about God and His truth in ancient times. Job expects to "see...

  • 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

    The style of this and other poetical books is concise and short, and therefore many words are to be understood in some places to complete the sense. The meaning of the place is this, Though my skin is...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 19:26 after H310 skin H5785 destroyed H5362 (H8765) flesh H1320 see H2372 (H8799) God H433 And though -

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Job 19:25 I. The first point to notice is the use of the present tense by Job in speaking of his Redeemer: "I know that my Redeemer _liveth."_There is thus in the prophecy a distinct testimony to the...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Job 19:26 The happiness of heaven is the seeing God; and because our Lord and Saviour is God incarnate, therefore to see Christ was to faithful men a kind of heaven upon earth; and losing sight of Hi...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Job 19:25 I. Consider what were Job's supporting convictions. (1) Nothing could be more decisive in tone or positive in assertion than the words, "I know." It is a bold challenge made by a suffering m...

  • 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

    _For I know that my Redeemer liveth._ OF THE RESURRECTION (ON EASTER DAY) This text is a prophecy and prediction of our Saviour Christ’s glorious resurrection. A sacred truth, requiring not only the...

  • 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 19:25 FOR. Job states why he wants his words recorded (see vv. Job 19:23): I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVES. The Hebrew word fo

  • 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

    1 Corinthians 13:12; 1 Corinthians 15:53; 1 John 3:2; Matthew 5:8;...

  • 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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Though — Though my skin is now in a great measure consumed, and the rest of it, together with this body, shall be devoured by the worms, which may seem to make my case desperate. Flesh — Or with bodil...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    Does this verse indicate that the resurrection body will be a body of flesh? PROBLEM: Satan had afflicted Job’s body, and his flesh was rotting away. However, Job expressed his faith in God by saying...

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