Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
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Gill's Exposition
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass,.... A metaphor taken from travellers, who not only meet with obstacles and obstructions in their way, which make it difficult; but sometimes with such…
Barnes' Notes
Behold, I cry out of wrong - Margin, or “violence.” The Hebrew word (חמס châmâs) means properly violence. The violence referred to is that which was brought upon him by God. It is, indeed, harsh…
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…
God's hostility to him and destructive persecution of him.
In Job 19:19 the transition is already made to the account of God's hostility. The picture is sufficiently graphic. First there was the…
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