Job 19:10
He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
World English Bible Classic
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 me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
11He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
Cross References
Job 1:13It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
Job 8:13So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
Job 14:19The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
Job 17:15where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native 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 →