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Job 19:12

Job 19:12
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

He hath put my brethren far from me,.... As it is one part of business in war to cut off all communication between the enemy and their confederates and auxiliaries, and to hinder them of all the help…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 19:8-22

Bildad had very disingenuously perverted Job's complaints by making them the description of the miserable condition of a wicked man; and yet he repeats them here, to move their pity, and to work upon…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

raise up their way i. e. cast up a way or high bank on which to advance againt the beleaguered fort or city.

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