The Meaning of Job 19:18 Explained

Job 19:18

KJV: Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

YLT: Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.

Darby: Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.

ASV: Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Yea, young children  despised  me; I arose,  and they spake  against me. 

What does Job 19:18 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 19:1-29 - "i Know That My Redeemer Liveth"
In Job's melancholy condition his friends seemed only to add vexation and trial. The hirelings who sojourned in his household looked on him with disdain; his kith and kin were alienated; it seemed as if the Almighty had an antipathy against him. So great was his physical suffering that the only sound part of his body seemed to be the skin of his gums and his teeth, Job 19:20 (that is, all he could do was to speak). Then he suddenly breaks into the majestic utterance of Job 19:25-26.
Among the Bedouins the institution of the goel-or kinsman representative-still exists for the avenging of wrong done to a kinsman: and Job believed that his divine Goel would one day stand on the earth for his vindication. Yes, and more, he felt that somehow he, too, would arise from the very grave to hear that vindication spoken by those just and true lips. Above all, he would see God Himself standing with him-whom I"¦ shall see, on my side, Job 19:27, r.v. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 19

1  Job, complaining of his friends' cruelty,
6  shows there is misery enough in him to feed their cruelty
21  He craves pity
23  He believes the resurrection

What do the individual words in Job 19:18 mean?

Even young children despise me I arise and they speak against me
גַּם־ עֲ֭וִילִים מָ֣אֲסוּ בִ֑י אָ֝ק֗וּמָה וַיְדַבְּרוּ־ בִֽי

גַּם־  Even 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: גַּם  
Sense: also, even, indeed, moreover, yea.
עֲ֭וִילִים  young  children 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: עֲוִיל  
Sense: young male or man or boy, boy.
מָ֣אֲסוּ  despise 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: מָאַס 
Sense: to reject, despise, refuse.
בִ֑י  me 
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular
אָ֝ק֗וּמָה  I  arise 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect Cohortative, first person common singular
Root: קוּם 
Sense: to rise, arise, stand, rise up, stand up.
וַיְדַבְּרוּ־  and  they  speak 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Piel, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: דָּבַר 
Sense: to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing.
בִֽי  against  me 
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular

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