Job 19:10
He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.
Young's Literal Translation
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
9Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.
11And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.
Cross References
Job 1:13And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.
Job 6:11What [is] my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?
Job 8:13So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,
Job 14:19Stones have waters worn away, Their outpourings wash away the dust of earth, And the hope of man Thou hast destroyed.
Job 17:15And where [is] now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,
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 →