Job 19:12
in Job 19His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.
KJV
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
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This verse in Job 19
Commentary
8 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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.
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
they construct a ramp against me
The picture is a siege: troops, a ramp and a camp around a single tent. Henry recalls the hedge God once set around Job, so the besieging army now stands where the guard once stood. Barnes takes the troops as the calamities themselves.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
He puts the sign of God's anger and hatred next when he continues, "His hired robbers came all at once." The term "hired robbers" means the Sabeans (1:15), the Chaldeans (1:17) and the demons (c.1) who together laid waste his goods almost like a conspiracy. …
His robbers come together, and make themselves a way through me. For 'his robbers' are evil spirits, who busy themselves in hunting out the deaths of men; and these 'make themselves a way' in the hearts of the afflicted, when, amidst the adversities that are undergone outwardly, they do not cease to infuse bad thoughts likewise; of whom it is yet further added; And encamp round about my tabernacle.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
God's troops encamped around his tabernacle, as soldiers lay siege to a strong city, cutting off all provisions from being brought into it and battering it continually; thus was Job's tabernacle besieged. Time was when God's hosts encamped round him for safety: Hast thou not made a hedge about him?
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.
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The words behind it
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יַ֤חַד׀ | yachad | together | H3162 → | 141 times |
| יָ֘בֹ֤אוּ | yavou | they have come | H935 → | 2568 times |
| גְדוּדָ֗יו | gedudav | troops his | H1416 → | 33 times |
| וַיָּסֹ֣לּוּ | vaiyasolu | and they have piled up | H5549 → | |
| עָלַ֣י | ʾalai | on me | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| דַּרְכָּ֑ם | darkam | way their | H1870 → | 707 times |
| וַיַּחֲנ֖וּ | vaiyachanu | and they have encamped | H2583 → | |
| סָבִ֣יב | saviv | all around | H5439 → | 336 times |
| לְאָהֳלִֽי׃ | leoholi | <to> tent my | H168 → | 345 times |
יַ֤חַד׀together
yachadH3162 →141 times
יָ֘בֹ֤אוּthey have come
yavouH935 →2568 times
גְדוּדָ֗יוtroops his
gedudavH1416 →33 times
וַיָּסֹ֣לּוּand they have piled up
vaiyasoluH5549 →
עָלַ֣יon me
ʾalaiH5921 →5755 times
דַּרְכָּ֑םway their
darkamH1870 →707 times
וַיַּחֲנ֖וּand they have encamped
vaiyachanuH2583 →
סָבִ֣יבall around
savivH5439 →336 times
לְאָהֳלִֽי׃<to> tent my
leoholiH168 →345 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
Isaiah 51:23I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to…
it leads to
- Joshua 10:24
When they had brought the kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had accompanied him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks…
- Zechariah 12:2
“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples. Judah will be besieged, as well as Jerusalem.
- Joshua 10:24
Through
Job 16:13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
it leads to
- Job 20:25
It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.
- Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
- Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of…
- Job 20:25
Through
Job 16:11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
it leads to
- Psalms 27:12
Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
- Psalms 31:8
You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
- Psalms 7:14
Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
- Psalms 27:12
Where this verse is studied
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About Job
This page draws on 9 works. Open the list of works
This page draws on 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 and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.