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 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.
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...
CHAPTER 19 JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD _ 1. How long will ye vex my soul? (Job 19:1)_ 2. And I am not heard! (Job 19:7) 3. Forsaken of men he pleads to be pitied (Job 19:13) 4. Faith supreme ...
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 side,...
TABERNACLE. tent....
God's hostility to him and destructive persecution of him. In Job 19:6 the transition is already made to the account of God's hostility. The picture is sufficiently graphic. First there was the gener...
Figures of hostile assault; God directs charge after charge of His army against Him. The reference is to his afflictions, cf. ch. Job 10:17....
_raise up their way_ i. e. cast up a way or high bank on which to advance againt the beleaguered fort or city....
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._...
2. He has been overthrown by God. (Job 9:5-12) TEXT 19:5-12 5 IF INDEED YE WILL MAGNIFY YOURSELVES AGAINST ME, And plead against me my reproach; 6 Know now that God hath subverted me _in my cause,...
_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 ... WAY. An...
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 his...
TROOPS] of afflictions: cp. 'battalions of sorrows' ('Hamlet,' IV, 5). RAISE UP THEIR WAY] The figure is that of casting up a mound by which to attack a city....
Job was sure that God was attacking him. But we know from Job 2:3 that God was not angry with Job. God was proud of Job. God considered Job to be a loyal servant. NOBODY CARES ABOUT JOB V13 My brot...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 19 JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S...
יַ֤חַד ׀ יָ֘בֹ֤אוּ גְדוּדָ֗יו וַ יָּסֹ֣לּוּ עָלַ֣י...
XVI. "MY REDEEMER LIVETH" Job 19:1 Job SPEAKS WITH simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero upon our sympathies, blending a strain of expectancy with te...
“I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH” Job 19:1 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 disdain; his...
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, le...
His (g) troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. (g) His manifold afflictions....
_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 Autolych...
(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 side...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
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 these...
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 r...
_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...
His troops come together, the armies of God, the calamities and sufferings advance, AND RAISE UP THEIR WAY AGAINST ME, erecting bulwarks as they proceed to their attack, AND ENCAMP ROUND ABOUT MY TABE...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE NEGLECT HE SUFFERS...
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 long w...
8-22 How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall...
Job 19:12 troops H1416 come H935 (H8799) together H3162 up H5549 (H8799) road H1870 encamp H2583 ...
Job 19:1. _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 roadside. We...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad. His sublime faith. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: We may easily bear the unjust reproaches of men if we live in expectation of the glorious appearance o...
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. Job 1...
_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 exasperated him...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:1 Job responds, asking his friends how long they will persist in accusing him and why they feel no shame for doing so. Even if he has done wrong, it is God who has brought about his...
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 his faith...
EXPOSITION JOB 19:1 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 reproaches (verses...
Then Job answered and said, How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with your words? These ten times you have reproached me: and you're not ashamed that you made yourself like a stranger...
Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 51:23; Job 16:11; Job 30:12...
CALVARY FOREGLEAMS IN JOB Job 19:7 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 therein merely...
Troops — My afflictions, which are God's soldiers marching under his conduct. Raise — Cast up a trench round about me....