E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 19:19
inward = intimate. Hebrew men of my counsel = my confidential friends. read more
Job 19:19 Niv
E.W. Bullinger
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 19:19
Job 19:19. Inward friends— Rather intimate friends. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 19:19
19. inward—confidential; literally, "men of my secret"—to whom I entrusted my most intimate confidence. read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 19:1-29
4. Job’s second reply to Bildad ch. 19This speech is one of the more important ones in the book, because in it, Job reached a new low and a new high in his personal experience. He revealed here the extent of his rejection by his friends, relatives, and servants, but he also came to a new confidence in God. Bildad had spoken of the terrors of death, and now Job described the trials of life, his own life. He did so by using seven figures to describe himself: an animal trapped (Job 19:6), a... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 19:13-22
The hostility of Job’s other acquaintances 19:13-22In describing the people Job referred to in this section, he started with those farthest from him and moved to those closest to him, and from Job’s equals to his inferiors socially. Job may have meant by "the skin of my teeth" (Job 19:20 b)-"narrowly"-or that his teeth had fallen out and only his gums remained. Having found no comfort in other people, Job next turned back to God. read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 19:1-29
Job’s Fifth SpeechIn 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 friends to pity him; then from them he would fain appeal to posterity, wishing that he might engrave in the rock a declaration of his innocence, sure that those who read it in the after-time would feel the ring of sincerity and exonerate him of guilt. But, baffled by the callous unbelief of his... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 19:19
(19) My inward friends.—That is, my intimate friends: the men of my counsel who are familiar with my secret affairs. read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 19:1-29
Job 19:9-10 Compare the use of this passage by Scott in the affecting interview between Jeanie Deans and her sister, when the latter ( Heart of Midlothian, chap. xx.) upbraids herself for having forgotten 'what I promised when I faulded down the leaf of my Bible. "See," she said, producing the sacred volume, "the book opens aye at the place o' itsell. O see, Jeanie, what a fearfu' scripture!" Jeanie took her sister's Bible, and found that the fatal mark was made at this impressive text in the... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 19:1-29
XVI."MY REDEEMER LIVETH"Job 19:1-29Job SPEAKSWITH simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero upon our sympathies, blending a strain of expectancy with tender emotion. In shame and pain, sick almost to death, baffled in his attempts to overcome the seeming indifference of Heaven, the sufferer lies broken and dejected. Bildad’s last address describing the fate of the godless man has been deliberately planned to strike at Job under cover of a general... read more
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Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 19:1-29
Job’s reply to Bildad (19:1-29)Again Job rebukes his friends and rejects their assertion that his sufferings prove he must be a great sinner. Even if he has sinned, he argues, that is no concern of theirs (19:1-4). As Job sees things, he has not been wicked, but God has made it look as if he has by placing him in this humiliating situation (5-6). God has used his power against Job and Job can do nothing about it. He feels helpless (7-12). Relatives, friends and servants have all turned against... read more