Job 19:18
Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
In Context
17My spirit is strange to my wife, || And my favors to the sons of my [mother’s] womb.
19All the men of my counsel detest me, || And those I have loved, || Have been turned against me.
Cross References
Job 30:1“And now, laughed at me, || Have the younger in days than I, || Whose fathers I have loathed to set || With the dogs of my flock.
Isaiah 3:5And the people has exacted—man on man, || Even a man on his neighbor, || The youths enlarge themselves against the aged, || And the lightly esteemed against the honored.
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 →