Job 19
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1Then Job answered and said,
2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
26And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- עַלʻalH59219× in this chapter
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- לֹאlôʼH38086× in this chapter
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
- יָדַעyâdaʻH30455× in this chapter
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.)
- זוּרzûwrH21144× in this chapter
to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be aforeigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
- חָנַןchânanH26034× in this chapter
properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e. move to favor by petition)
- כִּיkîyH35884× in this chapter
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
- בָּשָׂרbâsârH13203× in this chapter
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
- אֱלוֹהַּʼĕlôwahhH4333× in this chapter
a deity or the Deity
- עוֹרʻôwrH57853× in this chapter
skin (as naked); by implication, hide, leather
- עָנָהʻânâhH60303× in this chapter
properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce
- גּוּרgûwrH14812× in this chapter
properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e. sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place); also to gather forhostility (as afraid)
- זֶהzehH20882× in this chapter
the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that
- חָזָהchâzâhH23722× in this chapter
to gaze at; mentally to perceive, contemplate (with pleasure); specifically, to have avision of
- חֶרֶבcherebH27192× in this chapter
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
- חָשַׁבchâshabH28032× in this chapter
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
- מָהmâhH41002× in this chapter
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
- מִיmîyH43102× in this chapter
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
- מִלָּהmillâhH44052× in this chapter
a word; collectively, a discourse; figuratively, a topic
- נָקַףnâqaphH53622× in this chapter
to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode); by implication (of attack) to knock together, i.e. surround or circulate
- נָתַןnâthanH54142× in this chapter
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
- סָבִיבçâbîybH54392× in this chapter
(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
- אׇמְנָםʼomnâmH5512× in this chapter
verily
- אָמַרʼâmarH5592× in this chapter
to say (used with great latitude)
- עַיִןʻayinH58692× in this chapter
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
- אֲנִיʼănîyH5892× in this chapter
I
- אֵפוֹʼêphôwH6452× in this chapter
strictly a demonstrative particle, here; but used of time, now or then
- קוּםqûwmH69652× in this chapter
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
- רָדַףrâdaphH72912× in this chapter
to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by)
- בַּיִתbayithH10041× in this chapter
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
- בְּמוֹbᵉmôwH11191× in this chapter
in, with, by, etc.
- בֵּןbênH11211× in this chapter
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
- בַּרְזֶלbarzelH12701× in this chapter
iron (as cutting); by extension, an iron implement
- גָּאַלgâʼalH13501× in this chapter
to be the next of kin (and as such to buy back a relative's property, marry his widow, etc.)
- גְּדוּדgᵉdûwdH14161× in this chapter
a crowd (especially of soldiers)
- גָּדַלgâdalH14311× in this chapter
to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride)
- גָּדַרgâdarH14431× in this chapter
to wall in or around
- אָהַבʼâhabH1571× in this chapter
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
- גַּםgamH15711× in this chapter
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
- אֹהֶלʼôhelH1681× in this chapter
a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance)
- דָּבַקdâbaqH16921× in this chapter
properly, to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit