Job 19:10
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Job 19:10 in other translations
| BSB | He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree. |
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| WEB | He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree. |
| ASV | He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree. |
| YLT | He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope. |
| DARBY | He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree. |
| BBE | I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree. |
| Webster | He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope hath he removed like a tree. |
What does Job 19:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 19:8-22
How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall not feel it hereafter. It is a very common mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every creature is that to us which God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's relations and friends…
Job 19:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 19:10
- Job 24:20
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
- Psalms 37:35-36
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
- Job 12:14
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
- 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
- Job 2:7
So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
- Psalms 102:11
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
- Job 6:11
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
- Job 17:15
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
- Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
- Job 17:11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
- Job 1:13-19
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house: And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. …
- Lamentations 2:5-6
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
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Context
- Job 19:9
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
- Job 19:10
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
- Job 19:11
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
Job 19:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Arruinóme por todos lados, y perezco; y ha hecho pasar mi esperanza como árbol arrancado. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il m’a détruit de tous côtés, et je m’en vais; il a arraché mon espérance comme un arbre. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Er hat mich niedergerissen ringsum, so daß ich vergehe, und hat meine Hoffnung ausgerissen wie einen Baum. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Destruxit me undique, et pereo: et quasi evulsæ arbori abstulit spem meam. |