Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:9

He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown [from] my head.

9. Then came the consciousness of the meaning of his calamities they were evidence that he was a transgressor. God took thus his crown of righteousness from his head, and stripped the glory of godliness from him, cf. ch. Job 29:14.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

He hath stripped me of my glory – Everything which I had that contributed to my respectability and honor, he has taken away. My property, my health, my family, the esteem of my friend – all is gone.

And taken the crown from my head – The crown is an emblem of honor and dignity – and Job says that God had removed all that contributed to his – and Job says that God had removed all that contributed to his former dignity; compare Pro 4:9; Pro 17:6; Eze 16:12; Lam 5:16.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

Verse 9. He hath stripped me of my glory] I am reduced to such circumstances, that I have lost all my honour and respect.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

Of my glory, i.e. of my estate, and children, and authority, and all my comforts.

The crown, i.e. all my ornaments.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

9. stripped . . . crownimagefrom a deposed king, deprived of his robes and crown; appropriate toJob, once an emir with all but royal dignity (Lam 5:16;Psa 89:39).

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He hath stripped me of my glory,…. The metaphor of a traveller may be still continued, who falling among thieves is stripped of his clothes, to which the allusion may be: Job was not stripped of his glory in a spiritual sense, not of the glorious robe of Christ’s righteousness, nor of the graces of the Spirit, which makes saints all glorious within; but in a civil sense, and is to be understood not merely of his rich apparel, or of his robe, which he might wear as a civil magistrate, as an ensign of honour, and which made him look glorious; but either of his wealth, riches, and substance, which are a man’s glory, and which he too often and too much glories in, though Job might not; see Ps 49:16; or of his children, Ho 9:11 Es 5:11; and indeed of everything that made him look magnificent among men; as an abundance of this world’s good, a numerous family, fine clothes, sumptuous living, and a stately palace; all which Job might have had, but was now stripped of all by one means or another; and whoever were the instruments, he ascribes it all to God, as being according to his sovereign will and pleasure; and these things are very properly and significantly expressed by clothes a man is stripped of, because they are outward things, as garments are, adorn and make externally glorious, as they do, and of which a man may be as soon and as easily deprived as to be stripped of his clothes by one or more of superior power to him:

and taken the crown [from] my head: meaning much the same as before, either his wealth and riches, which are the crown of a wise man,

Pr 14:24; or his children, which are the crown of old then,

Pr 17:6; or everything that gave him honour, reputation, and esteem with men; all was taken away from him, and his honour laid in the dust. Some from hence have wrongly concluded that Job was a king, and wore a royal diadem, of which he was now deprived, mistaking him for Jobab, a king of Edom, Ge 36:33; but he had and wore a better diadem, and which he did not lose, but held fast, even his righteousness, justice, and integrity, Job 29:14; and much less could the crown of life, righteousness, and glory, to which he was entitled, be taken from him.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

9. The crown Though not a king, Job’s former state was truly regal.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 19:9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown [from] my head.

Ver. 9. He hath stripped me of my glory ] This is the second comparison, ab externo corporis cultu et habitu, saith Merlin; from the outward habiliments and habits of the body, Gen 37:23 . Our King Richard II, when he was to be deposed, was brought forth gorgeously attired in his royal robes, with a crown upon his head, a sceptre in his hand, &c., but soon after despoiled of all, and unkinged. So it fared with poor Job, stripped and bereft of all that he formerly gloried in, and was respected for, as a man robbed hath all his clothes taken off, and is left naked. In him it appeared that mortality was but the stage of mutability, as one saith of our Henry VI, who of a most potent monarch was, when deposed, not the master of a molehill, nor owner of his own liberty (Daniel’s Hist.).

And hath taken the crown from off my head ] Hence some infer that Job was a king, the same with Jobab, king of Edom, mentioned Gen 36:34 . But this is uncertain, since crown is often in Scripture taken allegorically, for riches, authority, dignity, and other ornaments. These were taken from Job, yea, from off his head. See Lam 5:16 . But he had a better crown, quae nec eripi nec surripi potuit, which could not be taken away; viz. that crown of twelve stars, or celestial graces, Rev 12:1 , together with that crown of glory (the fruit of the former) that is “incorruptible and fadeth not away,” 1Pe 1:4 . Happy Job in such a crown; and that he was in the number of those few heads destined to such a diadem. David had (whatever Job had) a crown of pure gold set upon his head, Psal. xxi. 1; this was a great mercy to so mean a man, since beyond a crown the wishes of mortal man extend not. But David blesseth God for a better crown, Psa 103:4 , “Who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies.” And how was this set on his head? “Who forgiveth all thy iniquities,” &c., Psa 103:3 . Neither can any take away this crown, because we are kept (Greek, , guarded or garrisoned as in a tower of brass, or town of war, that is well fenced with walls and works, and so it is made impregnable) by the power of God through faith unto salvation, 1Pe 1:5 .

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

stripped: Job 29:7-14, Job 29:20, Job 29:21, Job 30:1, Psa 49:16, Psa 49:17, Psa 89:44, Isa 61:6, Hos 9:11

Reciprocal: Job 1:18 – there came Lam 5:16 – The crown Col 2:19 – by

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

19:9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the {e} crown [from] my head.

(e) Meaning, his children, and whatever was dear to him in this world.

Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes