Wesley Corpus

Chapter XIX Job complains of the wicked usage of his friends, ver. 1 - 7. Of the shyness and strangeness of his relations and intimates, ver. 8 - 19. Pleads for pity, ver. 20 - 22. Testifies his firm belief of the resurrection, ver. 23 - 27. Cautions his friends against persisting in their hard censures, ver. 28, 29. Ten - Many times. A certain number for an uncertain. Strange - That you carry yourselves like strangers to me, and condemn me as if you had never known my integrity. Erred - If I have sinned, I myself suffer for my sins, and therefore deserve your pity rather than reproaches. Cry - Unto God. Wrong - That I am oppressed by my friends. Glory - Of my estate, children, authority, and all my comforts. Crown - All my power, and laid my honour in the dust. Every side - In all respects, my person, and family, and estate. Gone - I am a lost and dead man. Hope - All my hopes of the present life, but not of the life to come. Tree - Which being once plucked up by the roots, never grows again. Hope in this life is a perishing thing. But the hope of good men, when it is cut off from this world, is but removed like a tree, transplanted from this nursery to the garden of God. Troops - My afflictions, which are God's soldiers marching under his conduct. Raise - Cast up a trench round about me. Estranged - As we must eye the hand of God, in all the injuries we receive from our enemies, so likewise in all the slights and unkindnesses we receive from our friends. Maids - Who by reason of their sex, commonly have more compassionate hearts than men. Arose - From my seat, to shew my respect to them, though they were my inferiors. Inward - My intimates and confidants, to whom I imparted all my thoughts and counsels. Skin - Immediately, the fat and flesh next to the skin being consumed. As - As closely as it doth to these remainders of flesh which are left in my inward parts. Touched me - My spirit is touched with a sense of his wrath, a calamity of all others the most grievous.