New English Translation
Job 19:15
15My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.
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 put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me. 14My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me. My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes. 16I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth. 17My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers.
Read all of Job 19Job 19:15 word by word
גָּ֘רֵ֤י בֵיתִ֣י וְ֭אַמְהֹתַי לְזָ֣ר תַּחְשְׁבֻ֑נִי נָ֝כְרִ֗י הָיִ֥יתִי בְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 19:15
- Job 19:16I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth.
- Job 31:31if the members of my household have never said, ‘If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job’s meat!’ –
- Psalms 123:3Show us favor, O Lord, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.
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
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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
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