Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:10
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
10. He hath destroyed ] Rather, he breaketh me down; the figure of a building. In the second clause the image is that of a great tree torn up by the roots, whose fall is pitiful. The words, and I am gone, refer to his inevitable death from his disease, which he regards as already virtually come, as is expressed in the next clause his hope (of life or recovery) is removed like a tree.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
He hath destroyed me on every side – He has left me nothing. The word which is used here is that which is commonly applied to which is used here is that which is commonly applied to destroying cities, towns, and houses. Rosenmuller.
And I am gone – That is, I am near death. I cannot recover myself.
And mine hope hath he removed like a tree – A tree, which is plucked up by the roots, and which does not grow again. That is, his hopes of life and happiness, of an honored old age, and of a continuance of his prosperity, had been wholly destroyed. This does not refer to his religious hope – as the word hope is often used now – but to his desire of future comfort and prosperity in this life. It does not appear but that his religious hope, arising from confidence in God, remainned unaffected.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 10. Mine hope hath he removed like a tree.] There is no more hope of my restoration to affluence, authority, and respect, than there is that a tree shall grow and flourish, whose roots are extracted from the earth. I am pulled up by the roots, withered, and gone.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
On every side, i.e. in all respects, and to all intents and purposes; my person, and family, and estate.
I am gone, i.e. I am a lost and dead man. Going is oft put for dying, as Gen 15:2; Psa 39:13.
Mine hope, i.e. all my hopes of the present life, as he oft expresseth it; but not of the life to come, as appears from Job 13:15,16; 19:25, &c.
Like a tree; which being once plucked up by the roots, never groweth again.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
10. destroyed . . . on everyside“Shaken all round, so that I fall in the dust”;image from a tree uprooted by violent shaking from every side[UMBREIT]. The last clauseaccords with this (Jer 1:10)
mine hopeas to thislife (in opposition to Zophar, Job11:18); not as to the world to come (Job 19:25;Job 14:15).
removeduprooted.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He hath destroyed me on every side,…. To be “troubled on every side” is much, as the apostles were, 2Co 4:8; but to be destroyed on every side, and all around, is more, and denotes utter destruction; it may have respect to the rein of his substance and family, which were all demolished at once; his oxen and asses, which were on one side, his camels on other, his sheep on another, and his children on another, and all destroyed in one day, and perhaps in a few hours; and also to his body, which God had made, and had fashioned together round about; but now he had suffered it to be smitten with ulcers from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet; and this earthly tabernacle of his was demolishing on every side, and just falling down; for the allusion is either to the demolition of a building, or to the rooting up of a tree, and so continued in the next clause; comparing himself to a tree, that is dug about on all sides, and its roots laid bare, and these and all their fibres cut off, so that it is utterly destroyed from growing any more, but becomes dead; and this Job thought to be his case:
and I am gone; or am a dead man, just going out of the world, the way of all flesh; and because of the certainty of it, and of its being very quickly, in a few minutes, as it were, he speaks of it as if it already was: wherefore it follows,
and my hope he hath removed like a tree; not like a tree that is cut down to its roots, which remain in the ground, and may sprout out again, Job 14:7; nor like a tree that is taken up with its roots, and removed to another place, and planted in another soil, where it may grow as well or better; but like a tree cut off from its roots, or pulled up by the roots, and laid upon the ground, when there can be no hope of its ever growing again; and so the hope of Job was like that; not his hope of salvation, of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal life, which was strong and firm, Job 13:15; nor can a good and well grounded hope be removed; not the grace of hope, which is an abiding one; nor the ground of hope, which is Christ and his righteousness, upon which hope, as an anchor, being cast, is sure and steadfast; nor the object of hope, eternal glory and happiness laid up in heaven: but this is to be interpreted of Job’s hope of a restoration to outward happiness, which his friends would have had him entertain, in case of repentance and reformation; but Job, as he was not sensible of his need of the one, as his friends understood it, he had no hope of the other, see Job 6:11.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
10. Destroyed , a word in common use for the pulling down of buildings.
Removed Uprooted. By these figures Job expresses complete destruction.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 19:10. And mine hope hath he removed He rooteth up my hope like a tree. Houbigant and Heath.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Job 19:10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Ver. 10. He hath destroyed me on every side ] Heb. He hath demolished me, he hath pulled me down piece meal, as an old house is taken down part by part. See Lev 14:45 Jdg 8:17 . God had made and fashioned Job’s body together round about, Job 10:8 , and now he destroyeth it round about. The body of a man is a wonderful fabric, wherein the bones are the timber work, the head the upper lodging, the eyes as windows, the eyelids as casements, the brows as pent houses, the ears as watch towers, the mouth as a door to take in that which shall uphold the building, and keep it in repair; the stomach as a kitchen to dress that which is conveyed into it; the guts and baser parts as sinks belonging to the house, &c. All these were decaying apace in Job as he thought.
And I am gone
And my hope hath he removed like a tree
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
destroyed = crushed.
removed = uprooted.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
destroyed: Job 1:13-19, Job 2:7, Psa 88:13-18, Lam 2:5, Lam 2:6, 2Co 4:8, 2Co 4:9
I am gone: Job 17:11, Psa 102:11
mine hope: Job 6:11, Job 8:13-18, Job 17:15, Job 24:20, Psa 37:35, Psa 37:36
Reciprocal: Jos 10:35 – utterly Job 1:18 – there came Job 14:7 – that it will sprout Job 14:19 – destroyest
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 19:10. He hath destroyed me on every side In all respects, my person, and family, and estate. And I am gone I am a lost and dead man. My hope hath he removed All my hopes of the present life, but not of the life to come; like a tree Which, being once plucked up by the roots, never grows again. Hope in this life is a perishing thing. But the hope of good men, when it is cut off from this world, is but removed like a tree, transplanted from this nursery to the garden of God.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
19:10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like {f} a tree.
(f) Which is plucked up, and has no more hope to grow.