The Meaning of Job 19:9 Explained

Job 19:9

KJV: He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

YLT: Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.

Darby: He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

ASV: He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

He hath stripped  me of my glory,  and taken  the crown  [from] my head. 

What does Job 19:9 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 19:1-29 - "i Know That My Redeemer Liveth"
In Job's melancholy condition his friends seemed only to add vexation and trial. The hirelings who sojourned in his household looked on him with disdain; his kith and kin were alienated; it seemed as if the Almighty had an antipathy against him. So great was his physical suffering that the only sound part of his body seemed to be the skin of his gums and his teeth, Job 19:20 (that is, all he could do was to speak). Then he suddenly breaks into the majestic utterance of Job 19:25-26.
Among the Bedouins the institution of the goel-or kinsman representative-still exists for the avenging of wrong done to a kinsman: and Job believed that his divine Goel would one day stand on the earth for his vindication. Yes, and more, he felt that somehow he, too, would arise from the very grave to hear that vindication spoken by those just and true lips. Above all, he would see God Himself standing with him-whom I"¦ shall see, on my side, Job 19:27, r.v. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 19

1  Job, complaining of his friends' cruelty,
6  shows there is misery enough in him to feed their cruelty
21  He craves pity
23  He believes the resurrection

What do the individual words in Job 19:9 mean?

Of my glory upon He has stripped me and taken the crown [from] my head
כְּ֭בוֹדִי מֵעָלַ֣י הִפְשִׁ֑יט וַ֝יָּ֗סַר עֲטֶ֣רֶת רֹאשִֽׁי

כְּ֭בוֹדִי  Of  my  glory 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: כָּבֹוד  
Sense: glory, honour, glorious, abundance.
מֵעָלַ֣י  upon 
Parse: Preposition-m, first person common singular
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
הִפְשִׁ֑יט  He  has  stripped  me 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: פָּשַׁט  
Sense: to strip, invade, strip off, make a dash, raid, spread out.
וַ֝יָּ֗סַר  and  taken 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: סוּר 
Sense: to turn aside, depart.
עֲטֶ֣רֶת  the  crown  [from] 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: עֲטָרָה  
Sense: crown, wreath.
רֹאשִֽׁי  my  head 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: רֹאשׁ 
Sense: head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning.