Job 19:18
Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
World English Bible Catholic
In The King James Version
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
In Context
17My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
19All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
Cross References
Job 30:1“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.
Isaiah 3:5The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable.
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 →