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Job 19:15
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My servants and maids consider me a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Those that dwell in my house, and my female slaves, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
My guests and my female servants treat me like a stranger; they look at me as if I were a foreigner.
My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.
They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
"Those who live [temporarily] in my house and my maids consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
The tenauntis of myn hows, and myn handmaydis hadden me as a straunger; and Y was as a pilgrym bifor her iyen.
My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
My guests and my servants consider me a stranger,
They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.
Those living in my house consider me a stranger; my slave-girls too — in their view I'm a foreigner.
The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
My servant girls and visitors in my home look at me as if I am a stranger and a foreigner.
They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am become an alien in their sight.
They that dwell in mine house, and my maides count me for a stranger: I am an aliant in their sight.
Those who live in my house and my women servants think of me as a stranger. I am like one from another country in their eyes.
the guests in my house have forgotten me; my serving girls count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.
They that dwel in mine house, and my maydes tooke me for a stranger: for I was a stranger in their sight.
They that dwell in my house, and my maids, consider me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
Those who were guests in my house have forgotten me; my servant women treat me like a stranger and a foreigner.
Ye guests of my house and my maidens, A stranger, have ye accounted me, An alien, have I become in their eyes;
They that dwell in my house, and my maidservants have counted me as a stranger, and I have been like an alien in their eyes.
the guests in my house have forgotten me; my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.
The seruauntes and maydens of myne owne house toke me for a straunger, and I am become as an aliaunt in their sight.
As for my household, and my maid-servants, I was a stranger before them.
My house guests and female servants regard me as a stranger;I am a foreigner in their sight.
Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
The tenants in my house, even my slave-girls, count me as a foreigner; I am an alien in their eyes.
Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.
The seruauntes and maydens of myne owne house take me for a strauger, and I am become as an aleaunt in their sight.
"Those who live in my house and my servant women consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight.
Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, Count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
"Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight.
Those who sojourn in my house and my maidservants count me a stranger.I am a foreigner in their sight.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
dwell: Job 19:16-19
count me: Job 31:31, Job 31:32, Psalms 123:3
Cross-References
But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord :
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They that dwell in mine house,.... Not his neighbours, as the Septuagint; for though they dwelt near his house, they did not dwell in it; nor inmates and sojourners, lodgers with him, to whom he let out apartments in his house; this cannot be supposed to have been his case, who was the greatest man in all the east; nor even tenants, that hired houses and lands of him; for the phrase is not applicable to them; it designs such who were inhabitants in his house. Job amidst all his calamities had an house to dwell in; it is a tradition mentioned by Jerom c, that Job's house was in Carnea, a large village in his time, in a corner of Batanea, beyond the floods of Jordan; and he had people dwelling with him in it, who are distinct from his wife, children, and servants after mentioned; and are either "strangers" d as the word sometimes signifies, he had taken into his house in a way of hospitality, and had given them lodging, and food, and raiment, as the light of nature and law of God required, Deuteronomy 10:18; or else proselytes, of whom this word e is sometimes used, whom he had been the instrument of converting from idolatry, superstition, and profaneness, and of gaining them over to the true religion; and whom he had taken into his house, to instruct them more and more in the ways of God, such as were the trained servants in Abraham's family: these, says he,
and my maids, count me for a stranger; both the one and the other, the strangers he took out of the streets, and the travellers he opened his doors unto, and entertained in a very generous and hospitable manner; the proselytes he had made, and with whom he had taken so much pains, and to whom he had shown so much kindness and goodness, and been the means of saving their souls from death; and his maidens he had hired into his house, to do the business of it, and who ought to have been obedient and respectful to him, and whose cause he had not despised, but had treated them with great humanity and concern; the Targum wrongly renders the word, "my concubines"; yet these one and another looked upon him with an air of the utmost indifference, not as if he was the master of the house, but a stranger in it, as one that did not belong unto it, and they had scarce ever seen with their eyes before; which was very ungrateful, and disrespectful to the last degree; and if they reckoned him a stranger to God, to his grace, to true religion and godliness, this was worse still; and especially in the proselytes of his house, who owed their conversion, their light and knowledge in divine things, to him as an instrument:
I am an alien in their sight; as a foreigner, one of another kingdom and nation, of a different habit, speech, religion, and manners; they stared at him as if they had never seen him before, as some strange object to be looked at, an uncommon spectacle, that had something in him or about him unusual and frightful; at least contemptible and to be disdained, and not to be spoke to and familiarly conversed with, but to be shunned and despised.
c De loc. Heb. fol. 89. M. d גרי "peregrini", Schmidt, Schultens. e Apud Rabbinos, passim.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They that dwell in mine house - The trials came to his very dwelling, and produced a sad estrangement there. The word used here גרי gārēy from גוּר gûr means properly those who “sojourn” in a house for a little time. It may refer to guests, strangers, servants, clients, or tenants. The essential idea is, that they were not “permanent” residents, though for a time they were inmates of the family. Jerome renders the place, “Inquilini domus meoe - the tenants of my house.” The Septuagint, Γείτονες οἰχιάς Geitones oikias - neighbors. Schultens supposes it means “clients,” or those who were taken under the protection of a great man. He quotes from the Arabian poets to show that the word is used in that sense, and particularly a passage from the “Hamasa,” which he thus translates:
Descendite sub alas meas, alasque gentis meae.
Ut sim praesidium vobis quum pugna con seritur.
Namque testamento injunxit mihi pater, ut reciperem vos hospites.
Omnemque oppressorem a vobis propulsarem.
There can be no doubt that Job refers to “dependents,” but whether in the capacity of servants, tenants, or clients, it is not easy to determine, and is not material. Dr. Good renders it “sojourners,” and this is a correct rendering of the word. This would be clearly the sense if the corresponding member of the parallelism were not “maids.” or female servants. “That” requires us to understand here persons who were “somehow” engaged in the service of Job. Perhaps his clients, or those who came for protection, were under obligation to some sort of service as the return of his patronage.
And my maids - Female domestics. The Chaldee, however, renders this לחינתי - “my concubines;” but the correct reference is to female female servants.
I am an alien - That is, to them. They cease to treat me as the head of the family.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 19:15. They that dwell in mine house — In this and the following verses the disregard and contempt usually shown to men who have fallen from affluence and authority into poverty and dependence, are very forcibly described: formerly reverenced by all, now esteemed by none. Pity to those who have fallen into adversity is rarely shown; the rich have many friends, and to him who appears to be gaining worldly substance much court is paid; for many worship the rising sun, who think little of that which is gone down. Some are even reproached with that eminence which they have lost, though not culpable for the loss. A bishop, perhaps Bale, of Ossory, being obliged to leave his country and fly for his life, in the days of bloody Queen Mary, and who never regained his bishopric, was met one morning by one like those whom Job describes, who, intending to be witty at the expense of the venerable prelate, accosted him thus: "Good morrow, BISHOP quondam." To which the bishop smartly replied, "Adieu, KNAVE semper."
