King James Version
Job 19:18 in the King James Version says “Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. young: or, the wicked” — study this verse from Job chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. young: or, the wicked”
Job 19:18 · KJV
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. mine: Heb. my belly
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. young: or, the wicked
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. my: Heb. the men of my secret
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. and to: or, as to
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“me I arose”
H6965to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
“and they spake”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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