Job 19:10
in Job 19He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
KJV
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
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This verse in Job 19
Commentary
10 notes on this verseMine hope hath he removed like a tree - There is no more hope of my restoration to affluence, authority, and respect, than there is that a tree shall grow and flourish, whose roots are extracted from the earth. I am pulled up by the roots, withered, and gone.
This site's exposition
He uproots my hope like a tree
on Job 19:10-12
In "He uproots my hope like a tree" Job answers his image at 14:7, where a cut tree had a hope a man lacked. With "His troops advance together" one tent becomes a city under siege. Delitzsch reads it as the language of the Chaldean and Sabean raids.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
He says that his crown was taken away from him, that is, he also was a king before, or … "He tore me off," he says, "and like a tree he cut away all my hopes from the roots. Like an enemy who is inflamed …
The Medieval Church2 voices
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone; and He hath removed mine hope like as with a tree torn away.
He places third the loss of exterior things when he says, "He destroyed me on all sides," namely, when all my exterior goods are laid waste, "and I perish," while the adversity lasts, because there is no hope of recovery. So he then places, "and …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
), "I am gone, quite lost and undone for this world; my hope hath he removed like a tree cut down, or plucked up by the roots, which will never grow again." Hope in this life is a perishing thing, but the hope of good men, when it is cut off from this world, is but removed like a tree, transplanted from this nursery to the garden of the Lord.
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A certain number for an uncertain. Strange - That you carry yourselves like strangers to me, and condemn me as if you had never known my integrity. Erred - If I have sinned, I myself suffer for my sins, and therefore deserve your pity rather than reproaches.
3 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
He hath destroyed me on every side,....
These are not the words of him that has a devil. He appeals to the coming of the Redeemer, from this wrangle at the bar to the judgment of the bench, even to him to whom all judgment is committed, who he knew would right him. The consideration of God's day coming will make it a very small thing with us to be judged of man's judgment, 1 Cor. iv.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
He hath destroyed me on every side - He has left me nothing. The word which is used here is that which is commonly applied to which is used here is that which is commonly applied to destroying cities, towns, and houses. “Rosenmuller.” And I am gone - That is, I am near death. I cannot recover myself. And mine hope hath he removed like a tree - A tree, which is plucked up by the roots, and which does not grow again. That is, his hopes of life and happiness, of an honored old age, and of a continuance of his prosperity, had been wholly destroyed. This does not refer to his “religious” hope - as the word hope is often used now - but to his desire of future comfort and prosperity in this life. It does not appear but that his religious hope, arising from confidence in God, remainned unaffected.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יִתְּצֵ֣נִי | yitetzeni | he has torn down me | H5422 → | |
| סָ֭בִיב | saviv | all around | H5439 → | 336 times |
| וָאֵלַ֑ךְ | vaelakh | and I have gone | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| וַיַּסַּ֥ע | vaiyasa' | and he has uprooted | H5265 → | |
| כָּ֝עֵ֗ץ | kaetz | like <the> a tree | H6086 → | 328 times |
| תִּקְוָתִֽי׃ | tikvati | hope my | H8615 → | 34 times |
יִתְּצֵ֣נִיhe has torn down me
yitetzeniH5422 →
סָ֭בִיבall around
savivH5439 →336 times
וָאֵלַ֑ךְand I have gone
vaelakhH1980 →1546 times
וַיַּסַּ֥עand he has uprooted
vaiyasa'H5265 →
כָּ֝עֵ֗ץlike <the> a tree
kaetzH6086 →328 times
תִּקְוָתִֽי׃hope my
tikvatiH8615 →34 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Job 12:14What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
it leads to
- Isaiah 22:22
I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
- Revelation 3:7
To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut,…
- Job 11:10
If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
- Malachi 1:4
Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the…
- Jeremiah 51:58
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will…
- Isaiah 22:22
Through
Job 24:20The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.
it leads to
- Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
- Daniel 4:14
He called out in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds…
- Job 18:16–17
The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
- Proverbs 10:7
Where this verse is studied
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About Job
This page draws on 10 works. Open the list of works
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Job; Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIV; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Olympiodorus of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON JOB 19:8-11 and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.