Job 19:12. 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. read more
12. troops—Calamities advance together like hostile troops ( :-). raise up . . . way—An army must cast up a way of access before it, in marching against a city (Isaiah 40:3). read more
4. Job’s second reply to Bildad ch. 19This speech is one of the more important ones in the book, because in it, Job reached a new low and a new high in his personal experience. He revealed here the extent of his rejection by his friends, relatives, and servants, but he also came to a new confidence in God. Bildad had spoken of the terrors of death, and now Job described the trials of life, his own life. He did so by using seven figures to describe himself: an animal trapped (Job 19:6), a... read more
The hostility of God 19:7-12Job agreed with his friends that God was responsible for his troubles, but while they believed God was punishing him for his sins, he contended that God was acting unjustly. He saw evidence of God’s injustice, too, in God’s silence when he cried out for help (Job 19:7). Job then named ten (cf. Job 19:3) hostile actions of God against himself (Job 19:8-12). Note the recurrence of "He" in these verses that emphasizes God’s responsibility. Bildad had previously cited... read more
Job’s Fifth SpeechIn 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 friends to pity him; then from them he would fain appeal to posterity, wishing that he might engrave in the rock a declaration of his innocence, sure that those who read it in the after-time would feel the ring of sincerity and exonerate him of guilt. But, baffled by the callous unbelief of his... read more
Job 19:9-10 Compare the use of this passage by Scott in the affecting interview between Jeanie Deans and her sister, when the latter ( Heart of Midlothian, chap. xx.) upbraids herself for having forgotten 'what I promised when I faulded down the leaf of my Bible. "See," she said, producing the sacred volume, "the book opens aye at the place o' itsell. O see, Jeanie, what a fearfu' scripture!" Jeanie took her sister's Bible, and found that the fatal mark was made at this impressive text in the... read more
XVI."MY REDEEMER LIVETH"Job 19:1-29Job SPEAKSWITH simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero upon our sympathies, blending a strain of expectancy with tender emotion. In shame and pain, sick almost to death, baffled in his attempts to overcome the seeming indifference of Heaven, the sufferer lies broken and dejected. Bildad’s last address describing the fate of the godless man has been deliberately planned to strike at Job under cover of a general... read more
CHAPTER 19 Job’s Reply to Bildad 1. How long will ye vex my soul? (Job 19:1-6 ) 2. And I am not heard! (Job 19:7-12 ) 3. Forsaken of men he pleads to be pitied (Job 19:13-24 ) 4. Faith supreme (Job 19:25-27 ) 5. The warning to his friends (Job 19:28-29 ) Job 19:1-6 . Bildad’s scathing speech did not bring Job into the dust. He acknowledges the words vexed his soul and broke him in pieces, but he does not change his viewpoint. He repudiates the guilt with which they charged him and... read more
19:12 His {g} troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.(g) His manifold afflictions. read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 19:12
tabernacle = tent. read more