Job 19:11

"He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree."

Key Reflection

In this verse, Job expresses his profound despair and sense of abandonment by God. He describes how his hopes have been utterly destroyed, likening them to a tree that has been uprooted, symbolizing the complete loss of any future comfort or expectation in life.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

He hath also kindled his wrath -He is angry. Wrath in the Scriptures is usually represented as burning or inflamed - because like fire it destroys everything before it. And he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies -He treats me as he would an enemy. The same complaint he elsewhere makes; seeJob 13:24; perhaps also inJob 16:9. We are not to understand Job here as admitting that “he” was an enemy of God. He constantly maintained that he was not, but he was constrained to admit that God “treated him” as if he were his enemy, and he could not account for it.

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