Job 19 · Verse 10

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, King James Version

Job 19:10 in other translations

BSBHe tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
WEBHe has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
ASVHe hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
YLTHe breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.
DARBYHe breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.
BBEI am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.
WebsterHe 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
10. destroyed ... on every side--"Shaken all round, so that I fall in the dust"; image from a tree uprooted by violent shaking from every side [Umbreit]. The last clause accords with this (Jr 1:10) mine hope--as to this life (in opposition to Zophar, Job 11:18); not as to the world to come (Job 19:25; Job 14:15). removed--uprooted.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 Mine 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.

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…

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Job 19:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יִתְּצֵ֣נִיyi.te.Tze.nihe has torn down meH5422
סָ֭בִיבSa.vivall aroundH5439
וָאֵלַ֑ךְva.'e.Lakhand I have goneH1980
וַיַּסַּ֥עvai.ya.Sa'and he has uprootedH5265
כָּ֝עֵ֗ץka.'Etzlike <the> a treeH6086
תִּקְוָתִֽי\׃tik.va.Tihope myH8615

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
destroyed.
1:13-19; 2:7; Ps 88:13-18; La 2:5,6; 2Co 4:8,9
I am gone.
17:11; Ps 102:11
mine hope.
6:11; 8:13-18; 17:15; 24:20; Ps 37:35,36

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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.

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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.
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.