Job 19

Job 19:1

answered = replied. See note on Job 4:1.

my soul = me. Hebrew. nephesh.

Job 19:3

make yourselves strange to me: or, are insolent to me.

Job 19:4

erred . . . error. Hebrew. shaga. App-44.

remaineth with myself: i.e. is mine own affair.

Job 19:6

GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4.

Job 19:7

Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6. See translation below.

Job 19:10

destroyed = crushed.

removed = uprooted.

Job 19:12

tabernacle = tent.

Job 19:13

Note the Alternation in Job 19:13-14.

Job 19:14

Note the Alternation in Job 19:13-14.

Job 19:17

breath. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.

strange = offensive.

though I, &c. See rendering below.

children’s = sons’: i.e. had his sons not died.

Job 19:18

young children = the very boys; or, young miscreants.

arose = would fain rise.

Job 19:19

inward = intimate. Hebrew men of my counsel = my confidential friends.

Job 19:20

the skin of my teeth = the gums. See rendering below.

Job 19:21

Have pity, &c. Figure of speech Ecphonesis. App-6.

the hand. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.

touched = stricken. Figure of speech Tapeinosis. App-6.

Job 19:22

GOD. Hebrew El. App-4.

Job 19:23

Oh! Figure of speech Ecphonesis. App-6.

Job 19:24

graven = engraven. See translation below.

Job 19:25

know. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, to include all the effects of knowing.

Redeemer = next of kin. Hebrew. go’el. See notes on Exodus 6:6, and compare Rth 2:20; Rth 4:1, Rth 4:3, Rth 4:6. Isaiah 59:20.

earth = dust of [the earth].

Job 19:26

skin. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Part), App-6, for the whole body.

Job 19:27

another = a stranger. A pause must be made between Job 19:27 and Job 19:28.

Job 19:28

But ye: or, Ye shall [then] say.

seeing. Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-6). Supply by repeating the question, “Why see a root of blame in him? "

me. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read “him”.

Job 19:29

punishments = sins; “sins” put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for the punishments called for by them.

there is a judgment = that judgment will be executed.