Job 19:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. ”

• Job 19:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 Chaldean...

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• Job 19:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  His (g) troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. (g) His manifold afflictions.

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• Job 19:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 19. Job's Answer. Here the gradual progress of Job's soul towards faith reaches its climax ( Job 19:25 f.). It is to be remembered that Job's problem is in reality twofold: it has a personal s...

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• Job 19:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  tabernacle . tent.

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• Job 19:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

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• Job 19:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  His troops come together, &c.— The words here are military terms, relative to a siege. And raise up their way against me, Houbigant renders, and fortify their way against me.

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• Job 19:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. Troops - calamities advance together like hostile troops ( Job 10:17 , note). Raise up .....

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• Job 19:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Fifth Speech In this speech Job repeats his bitter complaints of God's injustice, and man's contemptuous abandonment of one formerly so loved and honoured. He appeals in broken utterances to...

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• Job 19:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XVI. "MY REDEEMER LIVETH" Job 19:1-29 Job SPEAKS WITH simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero upon our sympathies, blending a strain of expectanc...

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• Job 19:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth” Job 19:1-29 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 dis...

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• Job 19:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  To this terrible accusation Job replied first with a rebuke and a complaint. He demanded how long they would vex him, and declared that if he had erred, his sin was his own. If they would continue, l...

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• Job 19:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (8) В¶ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. (9) He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. (10) He hath destroyed me on every sid...

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• Job 19:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  His troops come together ,.... Afflictions which are many, and of which it may be said, as was at the birth of God, who had his name from the word here used, "a troop cometh": Genesis 30:11 ; and t...

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• Job 19:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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...

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• Job 19:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 a...

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• Job 19:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD (vv.1-6). Though Job did not lose his temper at the unjust accusations of Bildad, he shows here that the reproaches of his friends have struck deeply into his soul. "How lo...

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• Job 19:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job Complains of God's Displeasure; Job Complains of His Friends. B. C. 1520.       8 He hat...

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• Job 19:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  His troops, i.e. my afflictions, which are but God's instruments and soldiers marching under his conduct. Raise up their way; either, 1. Cast a bank or trench round about me, as an army doth wh...

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• Job 19:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Notes Job 19:23 . “ O that my words were now written! ” The “words” understood as either— (1) Those now to be uttered . So JEROME, PISCATOR, CARYL, HENRY, &c. As an everlasting monument of...

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• Job 19:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Job 19:1-2 . Then, Job answered and said, How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? They struck at him with their hard words, as if they were breaking stones on the roadsid...

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• Job 19:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 19:3 . These ten times have ye reproached me. A form of speech which puts a certain number for one less certain. Job had no doubt noticed about ten principal arguments levelled against him....

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• Job 19:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Then Job answered and said. Complaints and confidences I. Job bitterly complaining. 1. He complains of the conduct of his friends, and especially their want of sympathy. (1) They exaspera...

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• Job 19:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 19:1-18 Job begins his answer to Bildad's second speech by an expostulation against the unkindness of his friends, who break him in pieces, and torture him, with their reproa...

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• Job 19:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Complains of the Neglect he Suffers

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• Job 19:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 10:5 ; Isaiah 10:6 ; Isaiah 51:23 ; Job 16:11 ; Job 30:12

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• Job 19:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Calvary Foregleams in Job Job 19:7-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The story of Calvary is the story of the whole Bible. The Cross is not a message relegated to the Four Gospels and brought out there...

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• Job 19:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Troops — My afflictions, which are God's soldiers marching under his conduct. Raise — Cast up a trench round about me.

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