Job 8:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

Job 8:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 20:5
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Psalms 113:7
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
1 Samuel 2:8
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.
Ezekiel 17:24
And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.
Matthew 3:9
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Commentary

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

(vv. 8-19)

Bildad here discourses very well on the sad catastrophe of hypocrites and evil-doers and the fatal period of all their hopes and joys. He will not be so bold as to say with Eliphaz that none that were righteous were ever cut off thus (Job 4:7); yet he takes it for granted that God, in the course of his providence, does ordinarily bring wicked men, who seemed pious and were prosperous, to shame and…

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

(vv. 19)

19. Bitter irony. The hypocrite boasts of joy. This then is his “joy” at the last. and out of the earth--others immediately, who take the place of the man thus punished; not godly men (Mt 3:9). For the place of the weeds is among stones, where the gardener wishes no plants. But, ungodly; a fresh crop of weeds always springs up in the place of those torn up: there is no end of hypocrites on earth […