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. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:9”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. 8. No outgo or escape was possible, for there rose a wall before him if he would move; neither was there any outlook, for thick darkness fell close about him. These images are common to express the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:8”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:7
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but [there is] no judgment. 7. This drew from him in his helplessness cries of wrong, which were unheeded. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 7 12. God’s hostility to him and destructive persecution of him. In Job 19:6 … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:7”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:6
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. 6. Know now ] Or, as we say, know then. The word God is emphatic. overthrown me ] More probably, perverted my right ( Job 19:7); this, not his guilt, is the explanation of his afflictions. By his reference to the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:6”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:5
If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach: 5. If his friends mean in earnest to found inferences on his calamities then he will tell them that it is God who hath brought these on him unjustly ( Job 19:6). Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges If, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:5”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:4
And be it indeed [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. 4. In this verse Job must mean to repudiate the offences insinuated against him. The precise force of the second clause, however, is obscure. It might mean, “my error is my own and no matter for your intermeddling”; or, “I alone am … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:4”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:3
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me. 3. Job 19:23-27. Hopeless in the present he turns his eye to the future. He desires that his protest of innocence might find indelible record in the rock, that the generations to come might read it. Yet … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:3”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:2
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? 2. Job 19:13-22. Then even a more touching complaint of the alienation of men from him which God has caused. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 2. There is more than impatience expressed in the words vex (afflict) and … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:2”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:1
Then Job answered and said, 1. Job 19:7-12. A dark picture of the desertion of God and His terrible hostility to him. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Job 19:1-29 Then Job answered and said. Complaints and confidences I. Job bitterly complaining. 1. He complains of the conduct of his friends, and especially … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:1”
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 18:21
Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him that] knoweth not God. Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked – The conclusion or sum of the whole matter. The meaning is, that the habitations of all that knew not God would be desolate – a declaration which … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 18:21”