Jobsbók 11:19

Heilögum Biblíunni

19 Og þú hvílist, og enginn hræðir þig, og margir munu reyna að koma sér í mjúkinn hjá þér.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

many: Job 42:8, Job 42:9, Genesis 26:26-31, Psalms 45:12, Proverbs 19:6, Isaiah 60:14, Revelation 3:9

make suit unto thee: Heb. intreat thy face

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:5 - dwell Leviticus 26:6 - ye shall Psalms 3:5 - I laid Psalms 4:8 - I will Psalms 119:58 - favour

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also thou shall lie down, and none shall make [thee] afraid,.... Either lie down on his bed, as before, or by his flocks, and where they lie down, and none should disturb him or them; not thieves and robbers, such as the Chaldeans and Sabeans had been to him, nor lions, bears, and wolves;

yea, many shall make suit unto thee; make their supplications, present their requests and petitions for relief under necessitous circumstances, or for protection from the injuries and insults of others; as the poor and needy, the widow and fatherless, had done to him in times past, when in his prosperity, and when he was a friend unto them, and the father of them; see Proverbs 19:6; or, "the great ones z shall make suit to thee"; to have his favour and friendship, his counsel and advice, his company and conversation; he should be applied unto and courted by men of all sorts, which would be no small honour to him; see Psalms 45:12.

z רבים "magnates", Vatablus, Bolducius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Many shall make suit unto thee - Many shall come in a suppliant manner to ask counsel and advice. The meaning is, that he would be a man of distinction, to whom many would look for counsel. This was evidently an honor highly valued in the East, and one on which Job had formerly pridcd himself; see Job 29:7-13.