Job 19:29

you should be afraid that God will punish [MTY] you; he punishes those like you with whom he is angry; and when that happens, you will know that there is someone who judges people.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

In Context

28“If you three men say, ‘What more can we do to cause Job to suffer?’ and if you say, ‘He has caused his own troubles,’

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Cross References

Job 13:7Are you telling lies about me to prove God is just in causing me to suffer? Are you saying what is deceitful in order to benefit him?

Job 22:4“Is it because you have an awesome respect for God that he punishes you? Is that the reason that he puts you on trial?

Psalms 9:7But Yahweh rules forever. He judges people while he sits on his throne to judge people,

Ecclesiastes 11:9You young people, be happy while you are still young. Enjoy [IDM] doing the things that you want to do. But do not forget that some day God will judge you concerning all the things that you do.

Matthew 7:1“Do not talk about how sinfully others have acted, in order that God will not say how sinfully you have acted.

James 4:11My fellow believers, stop saying evil things about one another, because those who say something evil about a fellow believer and are therefore condemning one who is like a brother to them are really speaking against the law that God gave us to obey. In this law, God commanded [MTY] us to love others, and those who say evil things about fellow believers, it is as though they are saying that we do not have to do what God commanded. If you (sg) say that you do not have to do what God commanded, you (sg) are not obeying God’s law. Instead, you (sg) are claiming that you have the authority to condemn others.

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 →

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