Job 19:10
He breaks me down all around, and I go, || And removes my hope like a tree.
Literal Standard 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 my honor from off me, || And He turns the crown from my head.
11And He kindles His anger against me, || And reckons me to Him as His adversaries.
Cross References
Job 1:13And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn.
Job 6:11What [is] my power that I should hope? And what [is] my end that I should prolong my life?
Job 8:13So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, || And the hope of the profane perishes,
Job 14:19Waters have worn away stones, || Their outpourings wash away the dust of earth, || And You have destroyed the hope of man.
Job 17:15And where [is] my hope now? Indeed, my hope, who beholds it?
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked terrible, || And spreading as a green native plant,
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 →