Job 19:9
He has stripped my honor from off me, || And He turns the crown from my head.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
In Context
8He hedged up my way, and I do not pass over, || And He places darkness on my paths.
10He breaks me down all around, and I go, || And removes my hope like a tree.
Cross References
Job 29:7When I go out to the gate by the city, || In a broad place I prepare my seat.
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.
Psalms 89:39Have rejected the covenant of Your servant, || You have defiled his crown to the earth,
Psalms 89:44Have caused [him] to cease from his brightness, || And have cast down his throne to the earth.
Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen [from] our head, || Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
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 →