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Text -- Job 19:1-28 (NET)

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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!’
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Names, People and Places:
 · Job a man whose story is told in the book of Job,a man from the land of Uz in Edom


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Complaint | Job | Afflictions and Adversities | Friendship | Resurrection | Persecution | Blasphemy | Lead | BOOK | Jesus, The Christ | MOSES | DEATH | SHEOL | Faith | DAYSMAN | AFFLICTION | Testimony | ROCK | Redeemer | LIBRARIES | more
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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 ...

NET Notes: Job 19:2 The LXX adds to the verse: “only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.”

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...

NET Notes: Job 19:4 The word מְשׁוּגָה (mÿshugah) is a hapax legomenon. It is derived from שׁו...

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.

NET Notes: Job 19:6 The word מְצוּדוֹ (mÿtsudo) is usually connected with צוּד (tsud, “...

NET Notes: Job 19:7 The Niphal is simply “I am not answered.” See Prov 21:13b.

NET Notes: Job 19:8 Some commentators take the word to be חָשַׁךְ (hasak), related to an Arabic word for “thorn hedge.R...

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...

NET Notes: Job 19:10 Heb “like a tree.” The words “one uproots” are supplied in the translation for clarity.

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...

NET Notes: Job 19:12 Heb “they throw up their way against me.” The verb סָלַל (salal) means “to build a siege ramp” o...

NET Notes: Job 19:13 The LXX apparently took אַךְ־זָרוּ (’akh, “even, only,” and zaru, “...

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 ...

NET Notes: Job 19:15 This word נָכְרִי (nokhri) is the person from another race, from a strange land, the foreigner. The previous...

NET Notes: Job 19:16 Heb “plead for grace” or “plead for mercy” (ESV).

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...

NET Notes: Job 19:18 The verb דִּבֵּר (dibber) followed by the preposition בּ (bet) indicates speaking against someon...

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).

NET Notes: Job 19:20 The word “alive” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity.

NET Notes: Job 19:22 The idiom of eating the pieces of someone means “slander” in Aramaic (see Dan 3:8), Arabic and Akkadian.

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 ...

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...

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,...

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...

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.

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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