Job 19:18
Even young children, despise me, I rise up, and they speak against me;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
In Context
17My breath, is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my own mother;
19All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;
Cross References
Job 30:1But, now, they who are of fewer days than I, have poured derision upon me; whose fathers I refused—to set with the dogs of my flock.
Isaiah 3:5And the people will, tyrannise, Every man over his fellow-man, And every man over his friend,—And they will rage The boy against, the elder, And the despised, against, the honourable,
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 →