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**answered** = replied. See note on [Job 4:1](../../../kjv/job/4/1) .
**my soul** = me. Hebrew. *nephesh.*

**make yourselves strange to me:** or, are insolent to me.

**erred . . . error.** Hebrew. *shaga.* App-44 .
**remaineth with myself:** i.e. is mine own affair.

**GOD.** Hebrew Eloah. App-4 .

**Behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 . See translation below.

**destroyed** = crushed.
**removed** = uprooted.

**tabernacle** = tent.

Note the Alternation in [Job 19:13-14](../../../kjv/job/19/13-14) .

Note the Alternation in [Job 19:13-14](../../../kjv/job/19/13-14) .

**breath.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 .
**strange** = offensive.
**though I, &c.** See rendering below.
**children's** = sons': i.e. had his sons not died.

**young children** = the very boys; or, young miscreants.
**arose** = would fain rise.

**inward** = intimate. Hebrew men of my counsel = my confidential friends.

**the skin of my teeth** = the gums. See rendering below.

**Have pity, &c.** Figure of speech *Ecphonesis.* App-6 .
**the hand.** Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 .
**touched** = stricken. Figure of speech *Tapeinosis.* App-6 .

**GOD.** Hebrew El. App-4 .

**Oh!** Figure of speech *Ecphonesis.* App-6 .

**graven** = engraven. See translation below.

**know.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), App-6 , to include all the effects of knowing.
**Redeemer** = next of kin. Hebrew. *go'el.* See notes on [Exodus 6:6](../../../kjv/exodus/6/6) , and compare [Ruth 2:20](../../../kjv/ruth/2/20) ; [Ruth 4:1](../../../kjv/ruth/4/1) , [Ruth 4:3](../../../kjv/ruth/4/3) , [Ruth 4:6](../../../kjv/ruth/4/6) . [Isaiah 59:20](../../../kjv/isaiah/59/20) .
**earth** = dust of [the earth].

**skin.** Put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Part), App-6 , for the whole body.

**another** = a stranger. A pause must be made between [Job 19:27](../../../kjv/job/19/27) and [Job 19:28](../../../kjv/job/19/28) .

**But ye:** or, Ye shall [then] say.
**seeing.** Figure of speech *Ellipsis* ( App-6 ). Supply by repeating the question, "Why see a root of blame in him? "
**me.** Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "him".

**punishments** = sins; "sins" put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), App-6 , for the punishments called for by them.
**there is a judgment** = that judgment will be executed.

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