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Job 19:6

Job 19:6
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Behold, I cry out of wrong,.... Or of "violence" (m), or injury done him by the Sabeans and Chaldeans upon his substance, and by Satan upon his health; this he cried out and complained of in prayer to…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Know now that God - Understand the case; and in order that they might, he goes into an extended description of the calamities which God had brought upon him. He wished them to be “fully” apprised of…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 19:1-7

Job's friends had passed a very severe censure upon him as a wicked man because he was so grievously afflicted; now here he tells them how ill he took it to be so censured. Bildad had twice begun with…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Know now Or, as we say, know then. The word Godis emphatic.

overthrown me More probably, perverted my right (Job 19:19); this, not his guilt, is the explanation of his afflictions. By his reference to…