15 My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
15 The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
15 The servant girls treat me like a bum off the street, look at me like they've never seen me before.
15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, Count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
15 My servants and maids consider me a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 19:15
Commentary on Job 19:8-22
(Read Job 19:8-22)
How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall not feel it hereafter. It is a very common mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every creature is that to us which God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's relations and friends. How uncertain is the friendship of men! but if God be our Friend, he will not fail us in time of need. What little reason we have to indulge the body, which, after all our care, is consumed by diseases it has in itself. Job recommends himself to the compassion of his friends, and justly blames their harshness. It is very distressing to one who loves God, to be bereaved at once of outward comfort and of inward consolation; yet if this, and more, come upon a believer, it does not weaken the proof of his being a child of God and heir of glory.