Job 19:10
He batters me from every side, and I will soon die. He has caused me to no longer confidently expect him to do good things for me.
Translation for Translators
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
11He attacks me because he is extremely angry with me [MET], and he considers that I am his enemy.
Cross References
Job 1:13One day after that, Job’s sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the home of their oldest brother.
Job 6:11But now I do not have [RHQ] enough strength to endure all these things. And since I have nothing to hope for in ◄the future/this life►, it is difficult for me to be patient now [RHQ].
Job 8:13Those who do not pay attention to what God says are like those reeds; godless people stop confidently expecting that good things will happen to them.
Job 14:19and just like water slowly wears away the stones, and just like floods wash away soil, you eventually destroy us; you do not allow us to continue to ◄hope/confidently expect► that we will keep on living.
Job 17:15But if I say those things, ◄will there be anything good that I can confidently expect to happen to me?/there will be nothing good that I can confidently expect to happen to me.► [RHQ] ◄Is there anyone who knows anything good that I can expect when I am in the grave?/No one knows anything good that I can expect when I am in the grave.► [RHQ]
Psalms 37:35I have seen that wicked people who ◄act like tyrants/terrify people► sometimes prosper, like trees that grow well in fertile soil,
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 →