Job 19:12

"He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries."

Key Reflection

In Job 19:12, Job laments that God has turned His anger upon him and labeled him as one of His foes. For the original audience, this imagery would have resonated deeply, as it echoed common perceptions of divine judgment in their context. In first-century Israel, the notion that a just and merciful God could become angry with an individual was both shocking and frightening, highlighting Job's profound distress and the severity of his suffering.

From the Scholars: 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 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; seeIsaiah 40:3, note;Isaiah 57:14, note. And encamp round about my tabernacle -In the manner of an army besieging a city.

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