1 Job, complaining of his friends' cruelty, shews there is misery enough in him to feed their cruelty
21 He craves pity
23 He believes the resurrection

2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

How long 8:2 18:2 Ps 13:1 Re 6:10

vex 27:2 Jud 16:16 Ps 6:2,3 42:10 2Pe 2:7,8

break me Ps 55:21 59:7 64:3 Pr 12:18 18:21 Jas 3:6-8

3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

ten times Ge 31:7 Le 26:26 Nu 14:22 Ne 4:12 Da 1:20

ye reproached 4:6-11 5:3,4 8:4-6 11:3,14 15:4-6,11,12 18:4 *etc

make yourselves strange to me. or, harden yourselves against me 17 Ge 42:7 Ps 69:8

4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

I have erred 11:3-6

mine 2Sa 24:17 Pr 9:12 Eze 18:4 2Co 5:10 Ga 6:5

5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

magnify Ps 35:26 38:16 41:11 55:12 Mic 7:8 Zep 2:10 Zec 12:7

plead 1Sa 1:6 Ne 1:3 Isa 4:1 Lu 1:25 13:2-4 Joh 9:2,34

6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

God 7:20 16:11-14 Ps 44:9-14 66:10-12

compassed 18:8-10 La 1:12,13 Eze 12:13 32:3 Ho 7:12

7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

I cry 10:3,15-17 16:17-19 21:27 Ps 22:2 Jer 20:8 La 3:8 Hab 1:2,3

wrong. or, violence. no judgment 9:32 13:15-23 16:21 23:3-7 31:35,36 34:5 40:8

8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

fenced 3:23 Ps 88:8 La 3:7,9 Ho 2:6

set Jos 24:7 Pr 4:19 Isa 50:10 Jer 13:16 23:12 Joh 8:12

9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

stripped 29:7-14,20,21 30:1 Ps 49:16,17 89:44 Isa 61:6 Ho 9:11

10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

destroyed 1:13-19 2:7 Ps 88:13-18 La 2:5,6 2Co 4:8,9

I am gone 17:11 Ps 102:11

mine hope 6:11 8:13-18 17:15 24:20 Ps 37:35,36

11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

kindled De 32:22 Ps 89:46 90:7

he counteth 13:24 16:9 33:10 La 2:5

12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

His 16:11 Isa 10:5,6 51:23

raise 30:12

13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

put my brethren Ps 31:11 38:11 69:8,20 88:8,18 Mt 26:56 2Ti 4:16

estranged 6:21-23

14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

kinsfolk Ps 38:11 Pr 18:24 Mic 7:5,6 Mt 10:21

familiar 2Sa 16:23 Ps 55:12-14 Jer 20:10 Joh 13:18

15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

dwell 16-19

count me 31:31,32 Ps 123:3

16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

my servant 1:15,16,17,19

17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

breath 2:9,10 17:1

body. Heb. belly

18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

Yea 30:1,12 2Ki 2:23 Isa 3:5

young children. or, the wicked

19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

my inward friends. Heb. the men of my secret Ps 41:9 55:12-14,20

they whom 6:14,15 Ps 109:4,5 Lu 22:48

20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

bone 30:30 33:19-22 Ps 22:14-17 32:3,4 38:3 102:3,5 La 4:8

and to. or, as. and I am 2:4-6 7:5 La 3:4 5:10

21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

have pity 6:14 Ro 12:15 1Co 12:26 Heb 13:3

the hand 1:11 2:5,10 6:4 Ps 38:2

22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

persecute 10:16 16:13,14 Ps 69:26

and are not 2:5 31:31 Isa 51:23 Mic 3:3

23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

Oh. Heb. Who will give, etc. my words 31:35 Isa 8:1 30:8

oh that they were (Rather, 'Oh that they were described (yuchakoo) in a book, with an iron stile and lead! Were graven on a rock for ever!' Pliny observes, 'At first men wrote on palm leaves, and afterwards on the bark or rind of other trees. In process of time, public monuments were written on rolls of lead (plumbeis voluminibus); and those of a private nature on linen books, or tables covered with wax.')

24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

graven Ex 28:11,12,21 32:16 De 27:2,3,8 Jer 17:1

25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

I know 33:23,24 Ps 19:14 Isa 54:5 59:20,21 Eph 1:7

he shall Ge 3:15 22:18 Joh 5:22-29 Jude 1:14

26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

And though, etc. or, After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh shall I see God Ps 17:15

in my flesh Ps 16:9,11 Mt 5:8 1Co 13:12 15:53 Php 3:21 1Jo 3:2 Re 1:7

27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

I shall Nu 24:17 Isa 26:19

another. Heb. a stranger. though my reins, etc. or, my reins within me are consumed with earnest desire [for that day.] Ps 119:81 Php 1:23

within me. Heb. in my bosom

28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

Why 22 Ps 69:26

seeing, etc. or, and what root of matter is found in me? the root 1Ki 14:13

in me (Instead of bee, 'in me,' bo, 'in him,' is the reading of more than 100 MSS.)

29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

ye afraid 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