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Job 19:1

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Then Job answered:
Job 19:1 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Then Job answered,
  • KJV Then Job answered and said,
  • NKJV Then Job answered and said:
  • NASB Then Job responded,
  • NLT Then Job spoke again:

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Quick answer

This introduces Job's reply to Bildad's harsh second speech. It opens one of the book's most poignant chapters.

Overview

The narrator marks the start of Job's response, in which he laments his friends' cruelty and God's seeming hostility, yet rises to his famous confession of a living Redeemer. The simple introduction frames a speech that moves from deep anguish to soaring hope. It reminds us that honest lament can coexist with, and even give way to, profound faith.

Cross-references & the web

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Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Job videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • VideoWatch teaching on Job 19:1YouTube · Lay · Free

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on JobMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

How Job 19:1 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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Then Jobאִיּוֹבansweredעָנָהand saidאָמַר
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