Job 19:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

Job 19:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 1:15-17
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. …
Job 1:19
And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 their good nature, if they had any left in them. I. He complains of the tokens of God’s displeasure which he was under, and which infused the wormwood and gall into the affliction and misery. How dole…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. servant--born in my house (as distinguished from those sojourning in it), and so altogether belonging to the family. Yet even he disobeys my call. mouth--that is, “calling aloud”; formerly a nod was enough. Now I no longer look for obedience, I try entreaty.