Job 19:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

Job 19:18 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 2:23
And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
Job 30:1
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:12
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Isaiah 3:5
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Babes Birth Brotherly Kindness Children Commandments Duty Family

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. 18)

18. young children--So the Hebrew means (Job 21:11). Reverence for age is a chief duty in the East. The word means “wicked” (Job 16:11). So Umbreit has it here, not so well. I arose--Rather, supply “if,” as Job was no more in a state to stand up. “If I stood up (arose), they would speak against (abuse) me” [Umbreit].