His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
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His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
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His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
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His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Job 19:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 30:12 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
- Job 16:13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.
- Job 16:11 God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
- Isaiah 10:5-6 Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation! I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
- Isaiah 51:23 I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain His manifold afflictions.
His manifold afflictions.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 19:12 His troops come together, and raise up…
Job 19:12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
Ver. 12. His troops come together] i.e. Troops of tribulations and temptations, of pirates and robbers, σπειρατηρια (as the Seventy have it). Sickness and other sorrows are God’s soldiers, Mat 8:8-9, and they seldom come single, Jas 1:2, but trooping and treading on the heels of one another, Concateuata piorum crux; a company comes.
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And raise up their way against me] As soldiers besieging a place cast up their trenches and fortifications. Vatablus rendereth it, And have beaten their way upon me; that is, saith he, tribulations have so often passed over me, that they have made a pathway upon me, more transeuntium, as passengers use to do.
And encamp round about my tabernacle] Afflictions hem me in on every side; the troops of troubles besiege me so straitly, that I can no way in all the world find relief or comfort; which, now as by a strong hand, yea, as by a strong host, are withheld from my soul; and so are like to be for a long season, as sieges are many times. Heman was afflicted and ready to die from his youth up, suffering those terrors, Psa 88:15. Job was a man of sorrows.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain His troops, i.e. my afflictions, which are but God’s…
His troops, i.e. my afflictions, which are but God’s instruments and soldiers marching under his conduct.
Raise up their way; either,
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1. Cast a bank or trench round about me, as an army doth when they go to besiege a place. Or rather,
2. Make a causeway or raised path, as pioneers usually do in low and waterish grounds for the march of an army. God removes all impediments out of the way, and lays me open to all manner of mischief.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain He hath put my brethren far from me,.... As…
He hath put my brethren far from me,.... As it is one part of business in war to cut off all communication between the enemy and their confederates and auxiliaries, and to hinder them of all the help and assistance from them they can; so Job here represents God dealing with him as with an enemy, and therefore keeps at a distance from him all such from whom he might expect comfort and succour, as particularly his brethren; by whom may be meant such who in a natural relation are strictly and properly brethren; for such Job had, as appears from Job 42:11; who afterwards paid him a visit, and showed brotherly love to him; but for the present the affliction that God laid upon him had such an influence on theft, as to cause them to stand aloof off, and not come near him, and show any regard unto him; and as this was the effect of the afflicting hand of God, Job ascribes it to him, and which added to his affliction; see Psa 69:8;
and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me; such as knew him in the time of his prosperity, and frequently visited him, and conversed with him, and he with them; but now, things having taken a different turn in his outward circumstances, they carried it strange to him, as if they had never been acquainted with him: "si fueris felix", &c.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Troops - My afflictions, which are God's soldiers marching…
Troops - My afflictions, which are God's soldiers marching under his conduct. Raise - Cast up a trench round about me.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Job 19:12. His troops come together — My afflictions,…
Job 19:12. His troops come together — My afflictions, which are but God’s instruments and soldiers marching under his conduct; and raise up their way against me — Cast up a bank, or make a trench about me, as an army besieging a place; or raise a causeway or path, as pioneers usually do, in low and marshy grounds, for the march of an army: that is, God removes all impediments out of the way, and lays me open to troubles and calamities of every kind.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain His troops - The calamities which he had sent,…
His troops - The calamities which he had sent, and which are here represented as “armies” or “soldiers” to accomplish his work. It is not probable that he refers here to the bands of the Chaldeans and the Sabeans, that had robbed him of his property, but to the calamities that had come upon him, “as if” they were bands of robbers.
And raise up their way - As and army that is about to lay siege to a city, or that is marching to attack it, casts up a way of access to it, and thus obtains every facility to take it; see Isa 40:3, note; Isa 57:14, note.
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And encamp round about my tabernacle - In the manner of an army besieging a city. Often an army is encamped in this manner for months or even years, in order to reduce the city by famine.
My tabernacle - My tent; my dwelling.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Troops: (latrones) "free-booters," (Haydock) or "soldiers." (Sanctius) --- Those…
Troops: (latrones) "free-booters," (Haydock) or "soldiers." (Sanctius) --- Those nations made a practice of plundering one another’s territories, without any declaration of war. Mercury and Autolychus are praised for thefts of this description. (Odys. xix.) See Judges xi. 3. Septuagint, "his temptations (Calmet; or militia; Greek: peirateria) came rushing together upon me; lying down (Haydock) in ambush, (Calmet) they surrounded my paths." (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain troops--Calamities advance together like hostile troops (Job 10:17).
troops--Calamities advance together like hostile troops (Job 10:17).
raise up . . . way--An army must cast up a way of access before it, in marching against a city (Isa 40:3).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 12. Gives the three stages of a siege: invasion;…
12. Gives the three stages of a siege: invasion; the throwing up of a mound; and, finally, complete investment. In their attacks on walled places both the Assyrians and the Egyptians used to cast up mounds or “banks.”’ 2Ki_19:32; Isa_37:33; Jer_32:24. These not only enabled the besiegers to push their battering rams up to the fortress, but at the same time to scale its walls. The judgments of God, subjecting man to extreme suffering, are often spoken of under the figure of a siege. Isa_29:3.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. raise up their way] i. e. cast up…
12. raise up their way] i. e. cast up a way or high bank on which to advance againt the beleaguered fort or city.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain His troops come together. (comp. Job_16:13, "His archers compass…
His troops come together. (comp. Job_16:13, "His archers compass me round about It seems to Job that God brings against him a whole army of assailants, who join their forces together and proceed to the attack. Clouds of archers, troops of ravagers, come about him, and fall upon him from every side. And raise up their way against me; rather, and cast up their bank against me. Job still regards himself as a besieged city (see ver. 10), and represents his assailants as raising embankments to hem him in, or mounds from which to batter his defences (compare the Assyrian sculptures, Passim). and encamp round about my tabernacle; i.e. "my tent," or "my dwelling."
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