Job 19:12
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
American King James Version (AKJV)
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
American Standard Version (ASV)
His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.
Webster's Revision
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp around my tabernacle.
World English Bible
His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
English Revised Version (ERV)
His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.
Definitions for Job 19:12
Barnes's Job 19:12 Bible Commentary
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 the Sabeans, that had robbed him of his property, but to the calamities that had come upon him, "as if" they were bands of robbers.
And raise up their way - As and army that is about to lay siege to a city, or that is marching to attack it, casts up a way of access to it, and thus obtains every facility to take it; see Isaiah 40:3, note; Isaiah 57:14, note.
And encamp round about my tabernacle - In the manner of an army besieging a city. Often an army is encamped in this manner for months or even years, in order to reduce the city by famine.
My tabernacle - My tent; my dwelling.
Wesley's Job 19:12 Bible Commentary
19:12 Troops - My afflictions, which are God's soldiers marching under his conduct. Raise - Cast up a trench round about me.