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Selected Verse: Job 19:12 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 19:12 |
Strong Concordance |
His troops [01416] come [0935] together [03162], and raise up [05549] their way [01870] against me, and encamp [02583] round about [05439] my tabernacle [0168]. |
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King James |
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
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). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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.
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. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
12 His troops came together,
And threw up their way against me,
And encamped round about my tent.
13 My brethren hath He removed far from me,
And my acquaintance are quite estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk fail,
And those that knew me have forgotten me.
15 The slaves of my house and my maidens,
They regard me as a stranger,
I am become a perfect stranger in their eyes.
It may seem strange that we do not connect Job 19:12 with the preceding strophe or group of verses; but between Job 19:7 and Job 19:21 there are thirty στίχοι, which, in connection with the arrangement of the rest of this speech in decastichs (accidentally coinciding remarkably with the prominence given to the number ten in Job 19:3), seem intended to be divided into three decastichs, and can be so divided without doing violence to the connection. While in Job 19:12, in connection with Job 19:11, Job describes the course of the wrath, which he has to withstand as if he were an enemy of God, in Job 19:13. he refers back to the degradation complained of in Job 19:9. In Job 19:12 he compares himself to a besieged (perhaps on account of revolt) city. God's גדוּדים (not: bands of marauders, as Dietr. interprets, but: troops, i.e., of regular soldiers, synon. of צבא, Job 10:17, comp. Job 25:3; Job 29:25, from the root גד, to unite, join, therefore prop. the assembled, a heap; vid., Frst's Handwrterbuch) are the bands of outwards and inward sufferings sent forth against him for a combined attack (יחד). Heaping up a way, i.e., by filling up the ramparts, is for the purpose of making the attack upon the city with battering-rams (Job 16:14) and javelins, and then the storm, more effective (on this erection of offensive ramparts (approches), called elsewhere שׁפך סללה, vid., Keil's Archologie, 159). One result of this condition of siege in which God's wrath has placed him is that he is avoided and despised as one smitten of God: neither love and fidelity, nor obedience and dependence, meet him from any quarter. What he has said in Job 17:6, that he is become a byword and an abomination (an object to spit upon), he here describes in detail. There is no ground for understanding אחי in the wider sense of relations; brethren is meant here, as in Psa 69:9. He calls his relations קרובי, as Psa 38:12. ידעי are (in accordance with the pregnant biblical use of this word in the sense of nosse cum affectu et effectu) those who know him intimately (with objective suff. as Psa 87:4), and מידּעי, as Psa 31:12, and freq., those intimately known to him; both, therefore, so-called heart-or bosom-friends. בּיתי גּרי Jer. well translates inquilinin domus meae; they are, in distinction from those who by birth belong to the nearer and wider circle of the family, persons who are received into this circle as servants, as vassals (comp. Exo 3:22, and Arabic jâr, an associate, one sojourning in a strange country under the protection of its government, a neighbour), here espec. the domestics. The verb תּחשׁבוּני (Ges. 60) is construed with the nearest feminine subject. These people, who ought to thank him for taking them into his house, regard him as one who does not belong to it (זר); he is looked upon by them as a perfect stranger (נכרי), as an intruder from another country. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Troops - My afflictions, which are God's soldiers marching under his conduct. Raise - Cast up a trench round about me. |
3 The voice [06963] of him that crieth [07121] in the wilderness [04057], Prepare [06437] ye the way [01870] of the LORD [03068], make straight [03474] in the desert [06160] a highway [04546] for our God [0430].
17 Thou renewest [02318] thy witnesses [05707] against me, and increasest [07235] thine indignation [03708] upon me [05978]; changes [02487] and war [06635] are against me.
14 And shall say [0559], Cast ye up [05549], cast ye up [05549], prepare [06437] the way [01870], take up [07311] the stumblingblock [04383] out of the way [01870] of my people [05971].
3 The voice [06963] of him that crieth [07121] in the wilderness [04057], Prepare [06437] ye the way [01870] of the LORD [03068], make straight [03474] in the desert [06160] a highway [04546] for our God [0430].
22 But every woman [0802] shall borrow [07592] of her neighbour [07934], and of her that sojourneth [01481] in her house [01004], jewels [03627] of silver [03701], and jewels [03627] of gold [02091], and raiment [08071]: and ye shall put [07760] them upon your sons [01121], and upon your daughters [01323]; and ye shall spoil [05337] the Egyptians [04714].
12 I am forgotten [07911] as a dead man [04191] out of mind [03820]: I am like a broken [06] vessel [03627].
4 I will make mention [02142] of Rahab [07294] and Babylon [0894] to them that know [03045] me: behold Philistia [06429], and Tyre [06865], with Ethiopia [03568]; this man was born [03205] there.
12 They also that seek [01245] after my life [05315] lay snares [05367] for me: and they that seek [01875] my hurt [07451] speak [01696] mischievous things [01942], and imagine [01897] deceits [04820] all the day [03117] long.
9 For the zeal [07068] of thine house [01004] hath eaten me up [0398]; and the reproaches [02781] of them that reproached [02778] thee are fallen [05307] upon me.
6 He hath made [03322] me also a byword [04914] of the people [05971]; and aforetime [06440] I was as a tabret [08611].
14 He breaketh [06555] me with breach [06556] upon [06440] breach [06556], he runneth [07323] upon me like a giant [01368].
25 I chose [0977] out their way [01870], and sat [03427] chief [07218], and dwelt [07931] as a king [04428] in the army [01416], as one that comforteth [05162] the mourners [057].
3 Is there [03426] any number [04557] of his armies [01416]? and upon whom doth not his light [0216] arise [06965]?
17 Thou renewest [02318] thy witnesses [05707] against me, and increasest [07235] thine indignation [03708] upon me [05978]; changes [02487] and war [06635] are against me.
12 His troops [01416] come [0935] together [03162], and raise up [05549] their way [01870] against me, and encamp [02583] round about [05439] my tabernacle [0168].
9 He hath stripped [06584] me of my glory [03519], and taken [05493] the crown [05850] from my head [07218].
13 He hath put [07368] my brethren [0251] far [07368] from me, and mine acquaintance [03045] are verily estranged [02114] from me.
11 He hath also kindled [02734] his wrath [0639] against me, and he counteth [02803] me unto him as one of his enemies [06862].
12 His troops [01416] come [0935] together [03162], and raise up [05549] their way [01870] against me, and encamp [02583] round about [05439] my tabernacle [0168].
3 These ten [06235] times [06471] have ye reproached [03637] me: ye are not ashamed [0954] that ye make yourselves strange [01970] to me.
21 Have pity [02603] upon me, have pity [02603] upon me, O ye my friends [07453]; for the hand [03027] of God [0433] hath touched [05060] me.
7 Behold, I cry out [06817] of wrong [02555], but I am not heard [06030]: I cry aloud [07768], but there is no judgment [04941].
12 His troops [01416] come [0935] together [03162], and raise up [05549] their way [01870] against me, and encamp [02583] round about [05439] my tabernacle [0168].