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Job 19:16
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I call for my servant, but he does not answer,even if I beg him with my own mouth.
I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer; I beg him with my mouth.
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.
I call for my servant, but he does not answer, even when I beg him with my own mouth.
I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth.
"I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with words.
"I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore his favor with my mouth.
I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer; I beg him with my mouth.
I called my seruant, but he would not answere, though I prayed him with my mouth.
I call to my servant, but he does not answer;I have to implore him with my mouth.
I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.
and when I call my servants, they pay no attention.
I call my servant, and he doesn't answer, even if I beg him for a favor!
I called my servant, and he answered not; I entreated him with my mouth.
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth and implored him.
When I call a servant, he doesn't answer— even when I beg him to help me.
I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must personally plead with him.
I called my servant, but he does not answer; I must beg him with my mouth.
When I call vpon my seruaut, he geueth me no answere: no though I praie him with my mouth.
I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, Though I entreat him with my mouth.
At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.
I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, though I entreat him with my mouth.
I called my seruant, and he gaue me no answere: I intreated him with my mouth.
I called my seruaunt, and he gaue me no aunswere: [no though] I prayed him with my mouth.
I called my servant, and he hearkened not; and my mouth intreated him.
I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, though I entreat him with my mouth.
Y clepide my seruaunt, and he answeride not to me; with myn owne mouth Y preiede hym.
I call to my slave, and he gives me no answer, [Though] I plead to him with my mouth.
I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.
I call my servant, but he gives no answer; I beg him with my mouth.
When I call my servant, he doesn't come; I have to plead with him!
I call to my servant, but he does not answer. I have to beg him.
I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must myself plead with him.
To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him;
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer, I entreated him with my own mouth.
I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must beseech him with my mouth.
To my servant I have called, And he doth not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.
"I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with my mouth.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
my servant: Job 1:15, Job 1:16, Job 1:17, Job 1:19
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 19:18 - diligent 2 Samuel 19:29 - Why speakest Job 19:15 - dwell Proverbs 29:19 - though
Cross-References
That evening, just before bedtime, men from every part of town came to Lot's house. They stood around the house and called to Lot. They said,
"Where are the two men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us. We want to have sex with them."
Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man before. I will give my daughters to you. You can do anything you want with them. But please don't do anything to these men. They have come to my house, and I must protect them."
But the two men staying with Lot opened the door, pulled him back inside the house, and closed the door.
The next morning at dawn, the angels were trying to make Lot hurry. They said, "This city will be punished, so take your wife and your two daughters who are still with you and leave this place. Then you will not be destroyed with the city."
When Lot did not move fast enough, the two men grabbed his hand. They also took the hands of his wife and his two daughters. The two men led Lot and his family safely out of the city. The Lord was kind to Lot and his family.
But Lot said to the two men, "Sirs, please don't force me to run so far!
You have been very kind to me, your servant. You have been very kind to save me, but I cannot run all the way to the mountains. What if I am too slow and something happens? I will be killed!
So that night the two girls got their father drunk with wine. Then the younger daughter went and had sexual relations with him. Again, Lot did not know when she came to bed or when she got up.
Both of Lot's daughters became pregnant. Their father was the father of their babies.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I called my servant,.... His manservant, whom he had hired into his house, and who waited upon his person, and had been his trusty and faithful servant, and was dear unto him, and he had shown him much respect and kindness in the time of his prosperity; him he called to him, to do this and that and the other thing for him as usual; and of whose assistance and service he might stand in more need, being so greatly afflicted in body as well as in other things; and who ought to have been obedient to his call in all things, and have served him with all readiness and cheerfulness, with all heartiness, sincerity, integrity, and faithfulness; and given him the same honour and reverence as before; but instead of all this, it is observed,
and he gave [me] no answer; whether he would or would not do what he ordered him to do; he took no notice of him, he turned a deaf ear to him, and his back upon him; he came not near him, but kept his place where he was, or walked off without showing any regard to what he said to him; he neither answered him by words, nor by deeds; neither signified his readiness to do what he was ordered, nor did it. In some cases it is criminal in servants to answer again, when they thwart and contradict their masters, or reply in a saucy, surly, and impudent manner; but when they are spoke to about their master's business, it becomes them to answer in a decent, humble, and respectable way, declaring their readiness to do their master's will and pleasure:
I entreated him with my mouth; which is an aggravation of his insolence and disobedience; such was the low condition Job was reduced unto, and such the humility of his mind under his present circumstances, that he laid aside the authority of a master, and only entreated his servant, and begged it as if it was a favour, to do this or the other for him; nor did he signify this by a look and cast of his eye, or by a nod of his head, or by the direction of his hand; but with his mouth he spake unto him, and let him know what he would have done; and this not in an authoritative, haughty, and imperious manner; but with good words, and in submissive language, as it was something he was beholden to his servant for, rather than obedience to be performed.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I called my servant - He lost all respect for me, and paid me no attention.
I entreated him - I ceased to expect “obedience,” and tried to see what “persuasion” would do. I ceased to be master in my own house.
