Job 19:18
Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
In Context
17My breath is strange to my wife, and my supplication to the sons of my own mother.
19All my familiar friends abhor me, and those whom I loved are turned against me.
Cross References
Job 30:1But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Isaiah 3:5And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor. The child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.
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 →