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Text -- Job 19:1-29 (NET)
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Context
Job’s Reply to Bildad
19:1 Then Job answered :
19:2 “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words ?
19:3 These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!
19:4 But even if it were true that I have erred , my error remains solely my concern!
19:5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,
19:6 know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net .
Job’s Abandonment and Affliction
19:7 “If I cry out , ‘Violence !’ I receive no answer ; I cry for help , but there is no justice .
19:8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass , and has set darkness over my paths .
19:9 He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head .
19:10 He tears me down on every side until I perish ; he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree .
19:11 Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies .
19:12 His troops advance together ; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent .
Job’s Forsaken State
19:13 “He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.
19:14 My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.
19:15 My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger ; I am a foreigner in their eyes .
19:16 I summon my servant , but he does not respond , even though I implore him with my own mouth .
19:17 My breath is repulsive to my wife ; I am loathsome to my brothers .
19:18 Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up , they scoff at me.
19:19 All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.
19:20 My bones stick to my skin and my flesh ; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth .
19:21 Have pity on me, my friends , have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.
19:22 Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh ?
Job’s Assurance of Vindication
19:23 “O that my words were written down , O that they were written on a scroll ,
19:24 that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever !
19:25 As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives , and that as the last he will stand upon the earth .
19:26 And after my skin has been destroyed , yet in my flesh I will see God ,
19:27 whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold , and not another . My heart grows faint within me.
19:28 If you say , ‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!’
19:29 Fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings the punishment by the sword , so that you may know that there is judgment .”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Job |
Complaint |
Afflictions and Adversities |
Friendship |
Resurrection |
Persecution |
Lead |
Blasphemy |
DEATH |
Jesus, The Christ |
Faith |
MOSES |
DAYSMAN |
BOOK |
SHEOL |
Testimony |
AFFLICTION |
Assurance |
Pen |
ROCK |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Job 19:1; Job 19:2; Job 19:2; Job 19:2; Job 19:3; Job 19:3; Job 19:3; Job 19:4; Job 19:4; Job 19:4; Job 19:5; Job 19:5; Job 19:5; Job 19:6; Job 19:6; Job 19:6; Job 19:6; Job 19:7; Job 19:7; Job 19:7; Job 19:7; Job 19:8; Job 19:8; Job 19:9; Job 19:10; Job 19:10; Job 19:10; Job 19:10; Job 19:10; Job 19:11; Job 19:11; Job 19:12; Job 19:12; Job 19:13; Job 19:13; Job 19:14; Job 19:14; Job 19:15; Job 19:15; Job 19:15; Job 19:16; Job 19:16; Job 19:17; Job 19:17; Job 19:17; Job 19:18; Job 19:18; Job 19:19; Job 19:19; Job 19:19; Job 19:20; Job 19:20; Job 19:20; Job 19:22; Job 19:22; Job 19:23; Job 19:23; Job 19:24; Job 19:25; Job 19:25; Job 19:25; Job 19:26; Job 19:26; Job 19:26; Job 19:27; Job 19:27; Job 19:27; Job 19:27; Job 19:28; Job 19:29; Job 19:29; Job 19:29
NET Notes: Job 19:1 Job is completely stunned by Bildad’s speech, and feels totally deserted by God and his friends. Yet from his despair a new hope emerges with a ...
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NET Notes: Job 19:3 The second half of the verse uses two verbs, the one dependent on the other. It could be translated “you are not ashamed to attack me” (se...
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NET Notes: Job 19:5 Job’s friends have been using his shame, his humiliation in all his sufferings, as proof against him in their case.
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NET Notes: Job 19:8 Some commentators take the word to be חָשַׁךְ (hasak), related to an Arabic word for “thorn hedge.R...
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NET Notes: Job 19:9 The images here are fairly common in the Bible. God has stripped away Job’s honorable reputation. The crown is the metaphor for the esteem and d...
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NET Notes: Job 19:10 Heb “like a tree.” The words “one uproots” are supplied in the translation for clarity.
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NET Notes: Job 19:11 This second half of the verse is a little difficult. The Hebrew has “and he reckons me for him like his adversaries.” Most would change th...
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NET Notes: Job 19:12 Heb “they throw up their way against me.” The verb סָלַל (salal) means “to build a siege ramp” o...
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NET Notes: Job 19:14 Many commentators add the first part of v. 15 to this verse, because it is too loaded and this is too short. That gives the reading “My kinsmen ...
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NET Notes: Job 19:15 This word נָכְרִי (nokhri) is the person from another race, from a strange land, the foreigner. The previous...
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NET Notes: Job 19:17 The text has “the sons of my belly [= body].” This would normally mean “my sons.” But they are all dead. And there is no sugge...
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NET Notes: Job 19:18 The verb דִּבֵּר (dibber) followed by the preposition בּ (bet) indicates speaking against someon...
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NET Notes: Job 19:19 T. Penar translates this “turn away from me” (“Job 19,19 in the Light of Ben Sira 6,11,” Bib 48 [1967]: 293-95).
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NET Notes: Job 19:20 The word “alive” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity.
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NET Notes: Job 19:22 The idiom of eating the pieces of someone means “slander” in Aramaic (see Dan 3:8), Arabic and Akkadian.
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NET Notes: Job 19:23 While the sense of this line is clear, there is a small problem and a plausible solution. The last word is indeed סֶפֶר ...
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NET Notes: Job 19:24 There is some question concerning the use of the lead. It surely cannot be a second description of the tool, for a lead tool would be of no use in chi...
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NET Notes: Job 19:25 The Hebrew has “and he will rise/stand upon [the] dust.” The verb קוּם (qum) is properly “to rise; to arise,...
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NET Notes: Job 19:26 H. H. Rowley (Job [NCBC], 140) says, “The text of this verse is so difficult, and any convincing reconstruction is so unlikely, that it seems be...
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NET Notes: Job 19:27 Heb “fail/grow faint in my breast.” Job is saying that he has expended all his energy with his longing for vindication.
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NET Notes: Job 19:28 The MT reads “in me.” If that is retained, then the question would be in the first colon, and the reasoning of the second colon would be J...
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