Job 19:10
He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. And he has plucked up my hope like a tree.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
In Context
9He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
11He has also kindled his wrath against me. And he considers me to him as his adversaries.
Cross References
Job 1:13And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
Job 6:11What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should be patient?
Job 8:13So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish,
Job 14:19The waters wear the stones. The overflowings of it wash away the dust of the earth. So thou destroy the hope of man.
Job 17:15where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
Psalms 37:35I have seen a wicked man in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Matthew Henry on Job 19:9-23
Job Complains of God's Displeasure; Job Complains of His Friends. ( b. c. 1520.) 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… Read the whole commentary →