Job 19:29
So then, flee from the face of the sword, for the sword is the avenger of iniquities; but know this: there is to be a judgment.
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In Context
28Why then do you now say: “Let us pursue him, and let us find a basis to speak against him?”
Cross References
Job 13:7Does God require your lie, so that you would speak deceitfully for him?
Job 22:4Will he reprove you and take you to judgment for being afraid,
Psalms 9:7The spears of the enemy have failed in the end, and their cities, you have destroyed. Their memory has perished with a loud noise.
Ecclesiastes 11:9So then, rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart remain in what is good during the days of your youth. And walk in the ways of your heart, and with the perception of your eyes. And know that, concerning all these things, God will bring you to judgment.
Matthew 7:1“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged.
James 4:11Brothers, do not choose to slander one another. Whoever slanders his brother, or whoever judges his brother, slanders the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Matthew Henry on Job 19:24-29
Job's Confession of Faith; Happiness of the Redeemed. ( b. c. 1520.) 23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! 24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! 25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. 28… Read the whole commentary →