Job 19
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 19, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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Then Job answered and said,
Job 19:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Job 19:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed {that} ye make yourselves strange to me. {make...: or, harden yourselves against me}
Job 19:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And be it indeed {that} I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
Job 19:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If indeed ye will magnify {yourselves} against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Job 19:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Job 19:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but {there is} no judgment. {wrong: or, violence}
Job 19:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Job 19:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown {from} my head.
Job 19:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Job 19:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as {one of} his enemies.
Job 19:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
Job 19:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
Job 19:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Job 19:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I called my servant, and he gave {me} no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
Job 19:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's {sake} of mine own body. {mine...: Heb. my belly}
Job 19:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. {young...: or, the wicked}
Job 19:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. {my...: Heb. the men of my secret}
Job 19:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. {and to: or, as to}
Job 19:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Job 19:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job 19:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! {Oh...: Heb. Who will give, etc}
Job 19:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Job 19:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For I know {that} my redeemer liveth, and {that} he shall stand at the latter {day} upon the earth:
Job 19:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And {though} after my skin {worms} destroy this {body}, yet in my flesh shall I see God: {And...: or, After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh}
Job 19:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; {though} my reins be consumed within me. {another: Heb. a stranger} {though...: or, my reins within me are consumed with earnest desire (for that day} {within...: Heb. in my bosom}
Job 19:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? {seeing...: or, and what root of matter is found in me?}
Job 19:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath {bringeth} the punishments of the sword, that ye may know {there is} a judgment.
Job 19:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.