Pentecost Season · Proper 27 · Year C
Job 19:23-27a
Job’s Second Reply to Bildad
November 12, 2028
Overview & Insights
“I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.” (Job 19:25)
In chapter 19, Job responds to Bildad’s second speech. Job uses a mixture of lament and legal language to express how abandoned he feels by his friends (19:1–6), by God (19:7–12), and by the full range of people in his community (19:13–19). In the final verses of the chapter, Job pleads with his friends for compassion (19:20–22), he articulates his hope for a redeemer to take up his cause (19:23–27), and he warns his friends that they will have to face God’s judgment (19:28–29). Job does express some faint hope in God, even though his predominant emotion at this time is hopelessness. Only after Yahweh speaks to him in chapters 38–41 will Job’s hope find its fulfillment.
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Commentary
Commentary on Job 19:23-27a Working Preacher
Notes the emphatic certainty with which Job insists on his hope of vindication.
Job 19 Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik
Verse-by-verse notes on Job's confession of hope amid suffering.
Job 19:23 Commentaries BibleHub
A composite of classic commentaries on the 'Redeemer lives' confession.
Job 19 StudyLight
Barnes' Notes gives a close verse-by-verse reading of the Hebrew text.
Job Commentaries & Sermons Precept Austin
A curated roundup of verse-by-verse resources on the whole book.
Background & Word Study
Questions preachers ask
What is Job's great confession?
In the midst of loss Job cries out that his Redeemer lives and that in his flesh he shall see God, a hope the church sings at Easter.
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