Job 19:11
in Job 19His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
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ASV
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries.
KJV
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
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This verse in Job 19
Commentary
10 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
He hath also kindled his wrath - He is angry. Wrath in the Scriptures is usually represented as burning or inflamed - because like fire it destroys everything before it. And he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies - He treats me as he would an enemy. The same complaint he elsewhere makes; see Job 13:24; perhaps also in Job 16:9. We are not to understand Job here as admitting that “he” was an enemy of God.
This site's exposition
He uproots my hope like a tree
on Job 19:10-12
In "He uproots my hope like a tree" Job answers his image at 14:7, where a cut tree had a hope a man lacked. With "His troops advance together" one tent becomes a city under siege. Delitzsch reads it as the language of the Chaldean and Sabean raids.
This site's exposition
He counts me among His enemies
Job repeats the complaint of Job 13:24, as Barnes notes. Henry calls it a mistake to think God treats those He afflicts as enemies, since God loved Job and gloried in him as a friend. Job speaks without the prologue's knowledge.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
He says that his crown was taken away from him, that is, he also was a king before, or … "He tore me off," he says, "and like a tree he cut away all my hopes from the roots. Like an enemy who is inflamed …
The Medieval Church2 voices
He hath also kindled His wrath against me, and He counteth me unto Him as one of His enemies. For we have, been taught by the excellent Preacher attesting it, that 'God is faithful, Who will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able, but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that we may be able to bear it.' Moreover the Lord says by the Prophet, For I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with a cruel chastisement.
The root of hope is twofold: one is on the part of divine aid, the other on the part of human aid. The root of the hope which comes from divine aid seemed to have been torn up by the fact that God seemed gravely …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Job's present apprehension was that God counted him as one of his enemies; and yet, at the same time, God loved him, and gloried in him, as his faithful friend. It is a gross mistake, but a very common one, to think that whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies; whereas, on the contrary, as many as he loves he rebukes and chastens; it is the discipline of his sons.
A certain number for an uncertain. Strange - That you carry yourselves like strangers to me, and condemn me as if you had never known my integrity. Erred - If I have sinned, I myself suffer for my sins, and therefore deserve your pity rather than reproaches.
2 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
He hath also kindled his wrath against me,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
And he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies - From the seventh to the thirteenth verse there seems to be an allusion to a hostile invasion, battles, sieges, etc. 1. A neighboring chief, without provocation, invades his neighbor’s territories, and none of his friends will come to his help. “I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard,” Job 19:7. 2. The foe has seized on all the passes, and he is hemmed up. “He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass,” Job 19:8. 3. He has surprised and carried by assault the regal city, seized and possessed the treasures. “He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head,” Job 19:9. 4. All his armies are routed in the field, and his strong places carried. “He hath destroyed me on every side,” Job 19:10. 5. The enemy proceeds to the greatest length of outrage, wasting every thing with fire and sword. “He hath kindled his wrath against me, and treateth me like one of his adversaries, Job 19:11. 6. He is cooped up in a small camp with the wrecks of his army; and in this he is closely besieged by all the power of his foes, who encompass the place, and raise forts against it. “His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.” 7. Not receiving any assistance from friends or neighbors, he abandons all hope of being able to keep the field, escapes with the utmost difficulty, and is despised and neglected by his friends and domestics because he has been unfortunate. “I am escaped with the skin of my teeth,” Job 19:20. “My kinsfolk have failed-all my intimate friends abhorred me,” Job 19:14-19.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּ֣חַר | vaiyachar | and he has kindled | H2734 → | 91 times |
| עָלַ֣י | ʾalai | towards me | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| אַפּ֑וֹ | ʾapo | anger his | H639 → | 276 times |
| וַיַּחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי | vaiyachsheveni | and he has considered me | H2803 → | 124 times |
| ל֣וֹ | lo | <for> himself | ||
| כְצָרָֽיו׃ | khetzarav | like foes his | H6862 → | 109 times |
וַיַּ֣חַרand he has kindled
vaiyacharH2734 →91 times
עָלַ֣יtowards me
ʾalaiH5921 →5755 times
אַפּ֑וֹanger his
ʾapoH639 →276 times
וַיַּחְשְׁבֵ֖נִיand he has considered me
vaiyachsheveniH2803 →124 times
ל֣וֹ<for> himself
lo
כְצָרָֽיו׃like foes his
khetzaravH6862 →109 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Job 16:9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
it leads to
- Psalms 35:16
Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
- Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see…
- Job 13:24
Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
- Psalms 35:16
Through
Lamentations 2:5The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
it leads to
- Lamentations 2:2
Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her…
- Lamentations 2:2
Through
Job 13:24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
it leads to
- Psalms 13:1
How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
- Lamentations 2:5
The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
- Psalms 88:14
Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
- Psalms 13:1
Through
Psalms 90:7For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
it leads to
- Psalms 39:11
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
- Psalms 39:11
Where this verse is studied
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About Job
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Job; Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIV; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Olympiodorus of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON JOB 19:8-11 and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.