Job 19:15

Job 19:15 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
• New International Version (NIV)My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, Count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

Context of Job 19:15

13“He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances have completely turned away from me. 14My relatives have failed, And my close friends have forgotten me. Those who live in my house and my servant women consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight. 16I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore his favor with my mouth. 17My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.

Job 19:15 word by word

גָּ֘רֵ֤י בֵיתִ֣י וְ֭אַמְהֹתַי לְזָ֣ר תַּחְשְׁבֻ֑נִי נָ֝כְרִ֗י הָיִ֥יתִי בְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

• Those who liveגּוּרgûr · to sojournH1481
• in my houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• and my servantאָמָה'âmâh · maidservantH519
• considerחָשַׁבchâshab · to devise: thinkH2803
• me a strangerזוּרzûr · be a strangerH2114
• I amהָיָהhâyâh · to beH1961
• a foreignerנׇכְרִיnokrîy · foreignH5237
• in their sightעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869

Cross-references for Job 19:15

• Job 19:16I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore his favor with my mouth.
• Job 31:31Have the people of my tent not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been satisfied with his meat’?
• Psalms 123:3Be gracious to us, Lord, be gracious to us, For we have had much more than enough of contempt.

Commentaries on Job 19:15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15They that dwell in mine house - In this and the following verses the disregard and contempt usually shown to men who have fallen from affluence and authority into poverty and dependence, are very forcibly described: formerly reverenced by all, now esteemed by none. Pity to those who have fallen into adversity is rarely shown; the rich have many friends, and to him who appears to be gaining worldly substance much court is paid; for many worship the rising…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15They that dwell in mine house - The trials came to his very dwelling, and produced a sad estrangement there. The word used here גרי gārēy from גוּר gûr means properly those who “sojourn” in a house for a little time. It may refer to guests, strangers, servants, clients, or tenants. The essential idea is, that they were not “permanent” residents, though for a time they were inmates of the family. Jerome renders the place, “Inquilini domus meoe - the…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-22Verses 8-22 How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall not feel it hereafter. It is a very common mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every creature is that to us which God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's relations and friends. How uncertain is the…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. They that dwell, &c.--rather, "sojourn": male servants, sojourning in his house. Mark the contrast. The stranger admitted to sojourn as a dependent treats the master as a stranger in his own house.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 19:15

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Friendship
• Servant

In the dictionaries

• Acquaintance
• Fence
• Mouth
• Net
• Alien
• Count
• Maid; Maiden

Commentaries on Job 19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings