Job 19
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Job makes complaint about unkind usage
Verse 1
WEB Then Job answered,
KJV Then Job answered and said,
TSK No cross references.
Verse 2
WEB “How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
KJV How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
TSK How long: job 8:2, job 18:2, ps 13:1, re 6:10; vex: job 27:2, jud 16:16, ps 6:2,3, ps 42:10, 2pe 2:7,8; break me: ps 55:21, ps 59:7, ps 64:3, pr 12:18, pr 18:21, jas 3:6-8
Verse 3
WEB You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
KJV These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
TSK ten times: ge 31:7, le 26:26, nu 14:22, ne 4:12, da 1:20; ye reproached: job 4:6-11, job 5:3,4, job 8:4-6, job 11:3,14, job 15:4-6,11,12, job 18:4-21; make yourselves strange to me: job 19:17, ge 42:7, ps 69:8
Verse 5
WEB If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;
KJV If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
TSK magnify: ps 35:26, ps 38:16, ps 41:11, ps 55:12, mic 7:8, zep 2:10, zec 12:7; plead: 1sa 1:6, ne 1:3, isa 4:1, lu 1:25, lu 13:2-4, joh 9:2,34
Verse 6
WEB know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
KJV Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
TSK God: job 7:20, job 16:11-14, ps 44:9-14, ps 66:10-12; compassed: job 18:8-10, la 1:12,13, eze 12:13, eze 32:3, ho 7:12
Verse 7
WEB “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
KJV Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
TSK I cry: job 10:3,15-17, job 16:17-19, job 21:27, ps 22:2, jer 20:8, la 3:8, hab 1:2,3; no judgment: job 9:32, job 13:15-23, job 16:21, job 23:3-7, job 31:35,36, job 34:5, job 40:8
God was the Author of his troubles
Verse 9
WEB He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
KJV He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
TSK stripped: job 29:7-14,20,21, job 30:1, ps 49:16,17, ps 89:44, isa 61:6, ho 9:11
Verse 10
WEB He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
KJV He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
TSK destroyed: job 1:13-19, job 2:7, ps 88:13-18, la 2:5,6, 2co 4:8,9; I am gone: job 17:11, ps 102:11; mine hope: job 6:11, job 8:13-18, job 17:15, job 24:20, ps 37:35,36
Verse 12
WEB His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
KJV His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
TSK His: job 16:11, isa 10:5,6, isa 51:23; raise: job 30:12
Verse 13
WEB “He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
KJV He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
TSK put my brethren: ps 31:11, ps 38:11, ps 69:8,20, ps 88:8,18, mt 26:56, 2ti 4:16; estranged: job 6:21-23
Verse 15
WEB Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
KJV They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
TSK count me: job 31:31,32, ps 123:3
Verse 16
WEB I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
KJV I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.
TSK my servant: job 1:15,16,17,19
Verse 17
WEB My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
KJV My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
TSK breath: job 2:9,10, job 17:1
Verse 18
WEB Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
KJV Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
TSK Yea: job 30:1,12, 2ki 2:23, isa 3:5
Verse 19
WEB All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
KJV All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
TSK my inward friends: ps 41:9, ps 55:12-14,20; they whom: job 6:14,15, ps 109:4,5, lu 22:48
Verse 20
WEB My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
KJV My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
TSK bone: job 30:30, job 33:19-22, ps 22:14-17, ps 32:3,4, ps 38:3, ps 102:3,5, la 4:8; and I am: job 2:4-6, job 7:5, la 3:4, la 5:10
Job's belief in the coming back from death
Verse 24
WEB That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
KJV That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
TSK graven: ex 28:11,12,21, ex 32:16, de 27:2,3,8, jer 17:1
Verse 25
WEB But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
KJV For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
TSK I know: job 33:23,24, ps 19:14, isa 54:5, isa 59:20,21, eph 1:7; he shall: ge 3:15, ge 22:18, joh 5:22-29, jude 1:14
Verse 29
WEB be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
KJV Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
TSK ye afraid: job 13:7-11, ro 13:1-4; that ye may: ps 58:10,11, ec 11:9, mt 7:1,2, jas 4:11,12