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Job 19:9

Job 19:9
He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

He hath destroyed me on every side,.... To be "troubled on every side" is much, as the apostles were, Co2 4:8; but to be destroyed on every side, and all around, is more, and denotes utter…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

He hath stripped me of my glory - Everything which I had that contributed to my respectability and honor, he has taken away. My property, my health, my family, the esteem of my friend - all is gone.…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 19:8-22

Bildad had very disingenuously perverted Job's complaints by making them the description of the miserable condition of a wicked man; and yet he repeats them here, to move their pity, and to work upon…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Then came the consciousness of the meaning of his calamities they were evidence that he was a transgressor. God took thus his crown of righteousness from his head, and stripped the glory of godliness…