Job 19:26

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 19:26

Job 19:26 . 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. The meaning here is, Though my skin be now, in a great measure, consumed by sores, and the rest of it, together with this body, shall be devoured by worms, which may seem to make my case quite desperate, yet in my flesh Hebrew, מבשׁרי , mibbeshari, out of my flesh, or, with my... 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 19:26

skin. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Part), App-6 , for the whole body. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 19:26

"And after my skin, even this body is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God."This is a stupid error in our version, which fortunately, is rare enough in the ASV; but there is no doubt of it here. The proper rendition here is, "In my flesh, I shall see God," as properly rendered in the KJV, the new RSV, and in the DOUAY. However, even without the testimony of other versions, the text, as we have it, even here (the ASV) contradicts their false rendition. The following verse reads,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 19:25-27

Job 19:25-27. 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 resurrection; and that so clearly, that some have imagined the passage an interpolation, as they conceive the declaration too strong for the time and faith of Job: while others, and those especially who contend for the modern date of this Book, give the words a very different... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 19:26

26. Rather, though after my skin (is no more) this (body) is destroyed ("body" being omitted, because it was so wasted as not to deserve the name), yet from my flesh (from my renewed body, as the starting-point of vision, Song of Solomon 2:9, "looking out from the windows") "shall I see God." Next clause [Job 19:27] proves bodily vision is meant, for it specifies "mine eyes" [ROSENMULLER, 2d ed.]. The Hebrew opposes "in my flesh." The "skin" was the first destroyed by elephantiasis, then the... 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 19:23-29

Job’s confidence in God 19:23-29"But it is just here, when everything is blackest, that his faith . . . like the rainbow in the cloud . . . shines with a marvelous splendor." [Note: W. B. MacLeod, The Afflictions of the Righteous, p. 172.] This short section contains probably the best-known verses in the book (Job 19:23-27). They are an affirmation of Job’s great faith in God. One writer argued that Job was not expressing hope but despair because he believed God could vindicate him but would... 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 19:26

(26) 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 destroyed”—or, “and after my skin hath been destroyed—this shall be: that even from my flesh I shall see God”—referring, probably, in the first instance, to his present personal faith, notwithstanding the corruption produced by his disease. “I can and do still see God, whom I know as my Redeemer;” but... read more

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