Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 19:1 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 1. 1Then Job answered and said,
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Role in This Section
Job 19:1 opens the thought unit with the words “Then Job answered and said.” Job develops the next stated step through “Then Job answered and said” as part of Job Protests Repeated Shaming and Cries Wrong.
Read It With
- Job 19:1–19:7
Read Job 19:1 with 19:1–19:7. Read alone, “Then Job answered and said” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job asks how long the friends will crush him with words, distinguishes any error as his own, and cries that he has been wronged without receiving an answer.
Why It Needs Context
Job 19:1 depends on 19:1–19:7; isolating “Then Job answered and said” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Protests Repeated Shaming and Cries Wrong.”
Read Job 19:1–7 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 19:1–19:7 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Protests Repeated Shaming and Cries Wrong.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 1. 1 Then Job answered and said,
Verse 2. 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Verse 3. 3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
Verse 4. 4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
Verse 5. 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Verse 6. 6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Verse 7. 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 19:1–19:7 — Job Protests Repeated Shaming and Cries WrongSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 19:1–19:7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 19:1–19:7
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