Job 19:16
I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I entreat him with my mouth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
In Context
15Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, reckon me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
17My breath is strange to my wife, and my supplication to the sons of my own mother.
Cross References
Job 1:19And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.
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 →