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Job 19 Bible study: I know that my Redeemer lives

Job answers Bildad's "Does God pervert justice?" (8:3) with Bildad's own Hebrew verb: "God has subverted me" (19:6). And the stranger his household count him (19:15) is the word he uses of seeing God: "My eyes will see, and not as a stranger" (19:27).

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“But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.”
Job 19:25 · World English Bible

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"How long will you torment me?"

In the text

Every word of this chapter is Job's. It opens, "Then Job answered" (19:1), and he is answering Bildad, whose speech began, "How long will you hunt for words?" (18:2). Job begins the same way: "How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?" (19:2). In Hebrew How long is the same in both verses, and words is the same word. "You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me" (19:3), and "If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself" (19:4). Then he says where his trouble comes from: "know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net" (19:6) (tap subverted). Bildad had asked, "Does God pervert justice?" (8:3), and in Hebrew subverted is his verb. "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice" (19:7) (tap wrong). From 19:8 to 19:12 Job speaks of God as he: "He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass" (19:8), "He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head" (19:9) (tap glory, crown), "He has plucked my hope up like a tree" (19:10) (tap hope), "He counts me among his adversaries" (19:11), and "His troops come on together" (19:12). These are Job's words. These notes quote them and add no verdict on them, for or against; the third honest question below sets them beside what the book says at its end.

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  • "He has put my brothers far from me"
  • "Oh that my words were now written!"
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The Hebrew word behind it

גָּאַלga'alsay ga-AL

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "redeem, act as kinsman". Strong's: "to redeem (according to the Oriental law of kinship), i.e. to be the next of kin (and as such to buy back a relative's property, marry his widow, etc.)". "I know that my Redeemer lives" (19:25): my Redeemer is go'ali, the verb's participle go'el, the one who acts as kinsman, with my. It is the word Ruth uses of Boaz, "for you are a near kinsman" (Ruth 3:9), and the word of Israel's law on buying back what a poor brother has sold: "his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold" (Leviticus 25:25). Other Scripture gives it to God: "LORD, my rock, and my redeemer" (Psalm 19:14), and "Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel" (Isaiah 41:14). In the Hebrew of Job the verb comes only twice: here, and in Job's words on the day of his birth, "Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own" (3:5), where claim is this verb. In the WEB's Job, Redeemer is only here.

For your group

Job 19 Bible study questions

  1. 1"Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends" (19:21). When you have been in pain, what did you most need from the people around you?
  2. 2"Oh that my words were now written!" (19:23). Job wanted what he said to be kept, and he says, "I am not heard" (19:7). When have you felt unheard, and what helped?
  3. 3"But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives" (19:25). Job says it in the same speech in which he tells how his brothers, friends and household have gone from him (19:13-19). What do you hold on to when people fall away?

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