Job 19:6-20

First division NONE OTHER THAN GOD COULD BE THE AUTHOR OF SUCH CALAMITIES AS THOSE THAT HAVE BEFALLEN Job , vv6-20.

First strophe Job admits that it is impossible that a calamity bearing such marks of design (comp. Job 19:6 with Job 18:8-10) one, too, so complete and overwhelming should have proceeded from any other than God, who consistently turns a deaf ear to his solemn appeals, Job 19:6-12.

Satan so contrived the misfortunes, and especially the disease, of Job, as to convince him that they must be the work of God, hoping the more assuredly to wreck his faith. See note on Job 1:15, and Job 19:21.