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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 19:23-29

In all the conferences between Job and his friends we do not find any more weighty and considerable lines than these; would one have expected it? Here is much both of Christ and heaven in these verses: and he that said such things as these declared plainly that he sought the better country, that is, the heavenly; as the patriarchs of that age did, Heb. 11:14. We have here Job's creed, or confession of faith. His belief in God the Father Almighty, the Maker of heaven and earth, and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:23

O that my words were now written !.... Not his things F17 מלי "res meae", Polychronius apud Pinedam in loc. , as some render it, his affairs, the transactions of his life; that so it might appear with what uprightness and integrity he had lived, and was not the bad man he was thought to be; nor the words he had delivered already, the apologies and defences he had made for himself, the arguments he had used in his own vindication, and the doctrines respecting God and his providence... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:24

That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! Or "that they were written with an iron pen and lead, that they were cut or hewn out in a rock for ever"; not with both an iron and leaden pen, or pencil; for the marks of the latter are not durable, and much less could it be used on a rock according to our version; but the sense seems to be, that they might be written with an iron pen, which was used in writing, Jeremiah 17:1 ; upon a sheet of lead, as the Vulgate Latin... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:25

For I know ,.... The particle ו , which is sometimes rendered by the copulative "and", by an adversative "but", and sometimes as a causal particle "for", should not be rendered here by either; but as an explanative, "to wit", or "namely", as it is by Noldius F25 ואני "nempe ego", Nold. Ebr. Concord. Partic. p. 696. No. 1750. ; in connection with the preceding words; in which Job wishes some words of his were written in a book, or engrossed on sheets of lead, or were cut out on some... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:26

And though after my skin worms destroy this body ,.... Meaning not, that after his skin was wholly consumed now, which was almost gone, there being scarce any left but the skin of his teeth, Job 19:20 ; the worms in his ulcers would consume what was left of his body, which scarce deserved the name of a body, and therefore he points to it, and calls it "this", without saying what it was; but that when he should be entirely stripped of his skin in the grave, then rottenness and worms... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:27

Whom I shall see for myself ,.... For his pleasure and profit, to his great advantage and happiness, and to his inexpressible joy and satisfaction, see Psalm 17:15 ; and mine eyes shall behold, and not another ; or "a stranger" F8 זר "alienus", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Mercerus; "extraneus", Drusius. ; these very selfsame eyes of mine I now see with will behold this glorious Person, God in my nature, and not the eyes of another, of a strange body,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 19:23

O that my words were now written! - Job introduces the important subject which follows in a manner unusually solemn; and he certainly considers the words which he was about to utter of great moment, and therefore wishes them to be recorded in every possible way. All the modes of writing then in use he appears to refer to. As to printing, that should be out of the question, as no such art was then discovered, nor for nearly two thousand years after. Our translators have made a strange mistake... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 19:24

Iron pen and lead - Some suppose that the meaning of this place is this: the iron pen is the chisel by which the letters were to be deeply cut in the stone or rock; and the lead was melted into those cavities in order to preserve the engraving distinct. But this is not so natural a supposition as what is stated above; that Job refers to the different kinds of writing or perpetuating public events, used in his time: and the quotations from Pliny and Pausanias confirm the opinion already... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 19:25

For I know that my Redeemer liveth - Any attempt to establish the true meaning of this passage is almost hopeless. By learned men and eminent critics the words have been understood very differently; some vehemently contending that they refer to the resurrection of the body, and the redemption of the human race by Jesus Christ; while others, with equal vehemence and show of argument, have contended that they refer only to Job's restoration to health, family comforts, and general prosperity,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 19:26

And though after my skin worms destroy this body - My skin, which is now almost all that remains of my former self, except the bones; see Job 19:20 . They destroy this - not body. זאת נקפו nikkephu zoth , they - diseases and affliction, destroy This wretched composition of misery and corruption. Yet in my flesh shall I see God - Either, I shall arise from the dead, have a renewed body and see him with eyes of flesh and blood, though what I have now shall shortly moulder into dust,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 19:23-29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 19:27

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 19:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 19:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 19:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 19:26

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