Job 19

Job 19:3

THese ten times] That is, many times, as Nehemiah 4:12. Leviticus 26:26.

make yo selves strange to me] Or, harden your selves against me.

Job 19:4

mine errour remaineth with my self] I my self shall be punished for it: or, ye have not yet confuted it.

Job 19:5

If indeed ye will magnifie your selves against me] Ye take a fit time to tread me under foot, now God hath humbled me.

Job 19:6

Know now that God hath ver thrown me] He bursteth out into passion, and declareth that his affliction cometh of God, though he cannot see sufficient cause in himself.

and hath compassed me with his ne] Shut me into afflictions, that I cannot get out, Lamentations 1:13. Ezekiel 12:13. Hosea 7:12.

Job 19:7

I cry out of wrong] I complain that wicked men have wronged me, and God will not right me.

wrong] Or, violence.

Job 19:8

He hath fenced up my way] Chap. 3. 23. Lamentations 3:7. So that I cannot get out of my afflictions.

he hath set darknesse in my paths] Uncomfortablenesse and sorrow: as light is put for joy, Psalms 97:11.

Job 19:9

He hath stript me] Taken it off all, as a beasts skin, for so the word signifies.

my glory] Of my authority, and dignity of magistracy, chap. 29. 7, 14. 20. and 30. 11.

Job 19:10

mine hope hath he removed] Of restauration to prosperity, chap. 17. 5. not of eternall life, v. 25 of this chapter.

like a tree] Which is pluckt up, and hath no more hope to grow.

Job 19:11

counteth me unto him] Chap. 33. 10. and 13. 24.

as one of his enemies] In Hebrew it is, as his enemies; that is, as a deadly enemy. The plurall number encreaseth the signification.

Job 19:12

His troups come together] Job. 16. 33. Afflictions, like enemies, came against me in troups, cast a trench, and besieged me, chap. 6. 4. and 10 17.

Job 19:13

far from me] Psalms 88:18. Another trouble in war, to take off associates.

are verily estranged from me] In Hebrew it is, onely; that is, they onely are as strangers to leave me, not as friends to help me.

Job 19:14

my familiar friends have forgotten me] In Hebrew, they that were well approved of me. An ill requitall.

Job 19:15

They that dwell in mine house] My houshold-servants; for children he had none left. By all these losses Job sheweth, that, touching the flesh, he had great occasion to be moved.

Job 19:16

I intreated him with my mouth] In Hebrew it is, with my very mouth. A servant should come at a beck, Matthew 8:88. but mine regarded not my words.

Job 19:17

My breath is strange to my wife] She turns her face from me, as if my breath were unsavoury.

for the childrens sake] For the love and regard due to our children, the pledges of conjugall love, in whom we had an equall interest, though they were now taken away.

mine own body] Heb. my belly.

Job 19:18

young children despised me] Chap. 30. 1, 10. Or, the wicked.

Job 19:19

All my inward friends abhorred me] Psalms 41:9. and 55. 13, 14, 20. Heb. the men of my secret.

Job 19:20

My bene cleaveth] Besides these great losses, and most cruell unkindnesse, he was touched in his own person, as followeth.

my skin] Psalms 102:6. Lamentations 4:8. All my flesh was consumed; yea, the very gums about my teeth.

and] Or, as.

Job 19:21

for the hand of God hath touched me] Seeing I have these just causes to complain, condemn me not as an hypocrite, especially ye which should comfort me.

hand of God] Rth 1:13. 1 Samuel 6:9.

touched me] Chap. 1. 11. and 2. 5.

Job 19:22

Why do ye persecute me as God] Is it not enough that God doth punish me, except ye by reproaches encrease my forrow?

not satisfied with my flesh?] To see my body wasted, but ye must trouble my minde? as wilde beasts are not satisfied with the flesh, but break the bones of what they prey upon, chap. 31. 31.

Job 19:23

Oh that my words were nw written] Heb. Who will give, &c. Which I shall speak. Because they counted him a wicked man, he sets out his hope of resurrection to eternall life.

Job 19:24

in the rock for ever] That posterity may judge of my faith, and the equity of my cause, seeing ye will not.

Job 19:25

I knew that my Redeemer liveth] Who shall right me against you, and save my soul.

he shall stand at the later day] It may be read, Shall stand the last upon the ground; that is, shall carry away the victory over all enemies, 1 Corinthians 15:25-26.

Job 19:26

And though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God] Or, after I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh shall I see God.

worms destroy this body] Though worms cat not my skin onely, but my flesh also.

in my flesh shall I see God] Job had a full hope, that his body and soul should enjoy Gods presence in the resurrection.

Job 19:27

Whom I shall see for my self] I shall receive my own body again, and not another from that, created anew, Isaiah 26:19. 1 Corinthians 15:53.

another] Heb. a stranger.

within me] Heb. in my bosome.

Job 19:28

seeing the root of the matter is found in me?] Or, and what root of matter is found in me? Gods promises are rooted in my heart, and true piety is found there: therefore I should not be condemned as an hypocrite.

Job 19:29

for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword] Either he means Gods wrath against them, or theirs against him.

that ye may know there is a judgement] To condemn them that judge rashly of others, Matth. 7. 1, 2. Romans 4:4. James 4:11-12.