Job 19 · Verse 12

Job 19:12

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

Job 19:12 in other translations

BSBHis troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
WEBHis troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
ASVHis troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.
YLTCome in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.
DARBYHis troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.
BBEHis armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.
WebsterHis troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp around my tabernacle.

What does Job 19:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
12. 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 (Is 40:3).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 19:8-22

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 not feel it hereafter. It is a very common mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every creature is that to us which God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's relations and friends…

Read the full comment on Job 19:8-22 →

Job 19:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יַ֤חַד\׀Ya.chadtogetherH3162
יָ֘בֹ֤אוּya.Vo.'uthey have comeH935
גְדוּדָ֗יוge.du.Davtroops hisH1416
וַיָּסֹ֣לּוּvai.ya.So.luand they have piled upH5549
עָלַ֣י'a.Laion meH5921
דַּרְכָּ֑םdar.Kamway theirH1870
וַיַּחֲנ֖וּvai.ya.cha.Nuand they have encampedH2583
סָבִ֣יבsa.Vivall aroundH5439
לְאָהֳלִֽי\׃le.'o.ho.Li<to> tent myH168

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 19:12

  • Job 30:12

    Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

  • Job 16:13

    His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

  • Job 16:11

    God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

  • Isaiah 10:5-6

    O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

  • Isaiah 51:23

    But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
His.
16:11; Isa 10:5,6; 51:23
raise.
30:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 19:11

    He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

  • Job 19:12

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

  • Job 19:13

    He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

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Job 19:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Vinieron sus ejércitos á una, y trillaron sobre mí su camino, y asentaron campo en derredor de mi tienda.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Ses troupes sont venues ensemble, et elles ont dressé en chaussée leur chemin contre moi et se sont campées autour de ma tente.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Allzumal kamen seine Scharen und bahnten ihren Weg wider mich, und lagerten sich rings um mein Zelt.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Simul venerunt latrones ejus, et fecerunt sibi viam per me, et obsederunt in gyro tabernaculum meum.