JOB
CHAPTER 19
Job tells of the ills that have befallen him, and then testifies: I know that my Redeemer liveth—He prophesies of his own resurrection and that in his flesh he shall see God.
1 T
HEN Job answered and said,
2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed
that ye make yourselves strange to me.
4 And be it indeed
that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
5 If indeed ye will magnify
yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but
there is no judgment.
8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown
from my head.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as
one of his enemies.
12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
16 I called my servant, and he gave
me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s
sake of mine own body.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25
For I know [ What is the state that Job is in at this time? Total misery; he has nothing going for him. Given all the Job has sufferred, from his hopeless state of misery - what joy this must gave brought to him. Through the inspiration of the Holy Ghost Job had received a firm knowledge that God does live, that God does know him, and that in the end God will reign all will be subject to him, and his sufferings should have a happy termination. ] that my [ Denoting that he Job has a personal relationship with him, he is his Savior. ] redeemer [ One who redeems or ransoms, Jesus Christ the Savior of the world. ] liveth,
[ ] and
that he shall stand [ symbolic that he is the one with the power, he is the leader he is the one who is in charge. He shall stand, µwqy yakum, he shall arise, or stand up, i.e., to give sentence in judgment: or he himself shall arise from the dust, as the passage has been understood by some to refer to the resurrection of Christ from the dead. ] at the
latter day [ The latter day, wrja acharon, the latter day, or time, when God comes to judgment; or finally, or at last, or in the last time, or latter days, as the Gospel is termed. ] upon the earth:
26 And
though after
my skin [ My skin, which is now almost all that remains of my former self, except the bones; see ver. 20. ] worms destroy this
body,
yet in my flesh shall I see God:
[ This wretched body that I have will be renewed again to stand in perfect form before God as a resurrected being. ]
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another;
though my reins be consumed within me.
28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath
bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know
there is a judgment.