Job 9:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

Job 9:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 9:32-33
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. …
Job 9:4
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
1 Corinthians 1:25
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1 Corinthians 10:22
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
Job 40:9-10
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 14-21)

What Job had said of man’s utter inability to contend with God he here applies to himself, and in effect despairs of gaining his favour, which (some think) arises from the hard thoughts he had of God, as one who, having set himself against him, right or wrong, would be too hard for him. I rather think it arises from the sense he had of the imperfection of his own righteousness, and the dark and cl…

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

(vv. 19)

19. Umbreit takes these as the words of God, translating, “What availeth the might of the strong?” “Here (saith he) behold! what availeth justice? Who will appoint me a time to plead?” (So Jr 49:19). The last words certainly apply better to God than to Job. The sense is substantially the same if we make “me” apply to Job. The “lo!” expresses God’s swift readiness for battle when challenged.