Job 32:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 32

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¹⁹Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

Job 32:19 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 9:17
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

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Agriculture Art Bottle Drink Drunkenness Grape Intemperance Intoxicants

Commentary

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

(vv. 15-22)

Three things here apologize for Elihu’s interposing as he does in this controversy which had already been canvassed by such acute and learned disputants:— 1. That the stage was clear, and he did not break in upon any of the managers on either side: They were amazed (Job 32:15); they stood still, and answered no more, Job 32:16. They not only left off speaking themselves, but they stood still, to h…

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

(vv. 19)

19. belly--bosom: from which the words of Orientalists in speaking seem to come more than with us; they speak gutturally. “Like (new) wine (in fermentation) without a vent,” to work itself off. New wine is kept in new goatskin bottles. This fittingly applies to the young Elihu, as contrasted with the old friends (Mt 9:7).