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Job 19:11,12

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.

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See also Job 19:11,12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 19:11. _AND HE COUNTETH ME UNTO HIM AS_ ONE OF _HIS ENEMIES._] From the _seventh_ to the _thirteenth_ verse there seems to be an allusion to a hostile invasion, battles, sieges, c. 1. A nei...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HE HATH ALSO KINDLED HIS WRATH - He is angry. Wrath in the Scriptures is usually represented as burning or inflamed - because like fire it destroys everything before it. AND HE COUNTETH ME UNTO HIM AS...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _HE HATH ALSO KINDLED HIS WRATH AGAINST ME, AND HE COUNTETH ME UNTO HIM AS ONE OF HIS ENEMIES._ Enemies - (Job 13:24, "Wherefore holdest thou me for thine enemy?" Lamentations 2:5)....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HE HATH ALSO KINDLED... — Comp. Job 16:9; Job 16:12, &c....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּ֣חַר עָלַ֣י אַפֹּ֑ו וַ יַּחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי ל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HE HATH ALSO KINDLED HIS WRATH AGAINST ME,.... In this and some following verses the metaphor is taken from a state of warfare, in which enemies are engaged in an hostile way, Job 19:12; in which way...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as [one of] his enemies. Ver. 11. _He hath also kindled his wrath against me_] Now if his wrath was kindled, yea, but a little,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB COMPLAINS OF THE NEGLECT HE SUFFERS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    He hath also kindled His wrath against me, like a forest-fire, which devours everything in its path; AND HE COUNTETH ME UNTO HIM AS ONE OF HIS ENEMIES, regarding and treating him as the representative...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    He hath stirred up his wrath against me of his own accord, without any provocation of mine, human infirmity excepted. HE COUNTETH ME UNTO HIM AS ONE OF HIS ENEMIES, i.e. he useth me as sharply as if I...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 19:11 kindled H2734 (H8686) wrath H639 counts H2803 (H8799) enemies H6862 kindled - D

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 32:22; Job 13:24; Job 16:9; Job 33:10; Lamentations 2:5;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

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