Job 19:1 (YLT)

Passage

And Job answereth and saith: --

Nearby Context

Job 19:1 And Job answereth and saith: --

Job 19:2 Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?

Job 19:3 These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me--

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "answereth" and "saith". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "answereth" and "saith", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The next verse adds "Till when do ye afflict my soul...", so "answereth" and "saith" should be read forward into that movement. In Job context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "answereth" and "saith" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.