Job 19:7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 19:6-7

Job 19:6-7. 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 perverted me; either my state and condition, as has now been said: or my right and cause. He oppresseth me with power, and will not give me a fair hearing, as it follows, Job 19:7. This is a harsh reflection on God: but such thoughts and expressions have sometimes proceeded from good men... read more

Donald C. Fleming

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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 19:7

Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6 . See translation below. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 19:7

JOB'S ACCOUNT OF WHAT GOD HAS DONE TO HIM"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard:I cry for help, but there is no justice.He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass,And hath set darkness in my paths.He hath stripped me of my glory,And taken the crown from my head.He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone;And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.He hath also kindled his wrath against me,And he accounteth me unto him as one of his adversaries.His troops come on together,And... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 19:7

7. wrong—violence: brought on him by God. no judgment—God will not remove my calamities, and so vindicate my just cause; and my friends will not do justice to my past character. 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 19:7-12

The hostility of God 19:7-12Job agreed with his friends that God was responsible for his troubles, but while they believed God was punishing him for his sins, he contended that God was acting unjustly. He saw evidence of God’s injustice, too, in God’s silence when he cried out for help (Job 19:7). Job then named ten (cf. Job 19:3) hostile actions of God against himself (Job 19:8-12). Note the recurrence of "He" in these verses that emphasizes God’s responsibility. Bildad had previously cited... 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 19:7

(7) Behold I cry out of wrong.—The description he now gives of himself as persecuted and forsaken by God is necessary to enhance the value of the confession he is about to make. Severely has God dealt with him, but that severity of dealing has only drawn him nearer to God and made him trust the more. He groups together a rich variety of figures to express his desolate condition. He is suffering assault, and can get no protection or redress; he is imprisoned on every side, his hope is torn up... 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

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