Job 19

“Then Job answered and said,” Naming Job keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.” The number ten makes the report concrete. Ask whether it measures time, people, distance, repetition, or completeness before deciding what weight it carries.

“And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.” The line’s distinctive content terms include erred, error, myself. Its relationship to verses 3 and 5 shows what work it does in this passage.

“If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:” The line’s distinctive content terms include magnify, plead, reproach. Its relationship to verses 4 and 6 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.” Naming Know keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.” The line’s distinctive content terms include aloud, judgment, wrong. Its relationship to verses 6 and 8 shows what work it does in this passage.

“He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.” The line’s distinctive content terms include darkness, fenced, paths. Its relationship to verses 7 shows what work it does in this passage.

“He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.” The line’s distinctive content terms include crown, glory, head. Its relationship to verses 10 shows what work it does in this passage.

“He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.” The line’s distinctive content terms include destroyed, gone, hope. Its relationship to verses 9 and 11 shows what work it does in this passage.

“He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.” The number one makes the report concrete. Ask whether it measures time, people, distance, repetition, or completeness before deciding what weight it carries.

“His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.” Naming His keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.” The line’s distinctive content terms include acquaintance, brethren, estranged. Its relationship to verses 12 and 14 shows what work it does in this passage.

“My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.” The line’s distinctive content terms include failed, familiar, forgotten. Its relationship to verses 13 and 15 shows what work it does in this passage.

“They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.” The line’s distinctive content terms include alien, count, dwell. Its relationship to verses 14 and 16 shows what work it does in this passage.

“I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.” The line’s distinctive content terms include answer, gave, intreated. Its relationship to verses 15 shows what work it does in this passage.

“My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.” The line’s distinctive content terms include body, breath, children’s. Its relationship to verses 18 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.” Naming Yea keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.” Naming All keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.” The line’s distinctive content terms include skin, bone, cleaveth. Its relationship to verses 19 and 21 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.” Naming Have keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!” The line’s distinctive content terms include book, printed, words. Its relationship to verses 22 and 24 shows what work it does in this passage.

“That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!” The line’s distinctive content terms include graven, iron, lead. Its relationship to verses 23 shows what work it does in this passage.

“For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.” The line’s distinctive content terms include sword, afraid, bringeth. Its relationship to verses 28 shows what work it does in this passage.