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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Job 19:12

Together, enter his troops and have cast up, against me, their mound, and have encamped all around my tent;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Thompson Chain Reference - Job;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Spies ;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Encamp;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Siege;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
His troops advance together;they construct a ramp against meand camp around my tent.
Hebrew Names Version
His troops come on together, Build a siege ramp against me, And encamp around my tent.
King James Version
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
English Standard Version
His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
New Century Version
His armies gather; they prepare to attack me. They camp around my tent.
New English Translation
His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.
Amplified Bible
"His troops come together And build up their way and siege works against me And camp around my tent.
New American Standard Bible
"His troops come together And build up their way against me And camp around my tent.
World English Bible
His troops come on together, Build a siege ramp against me, And encamp around my tent.
Geneva Bible (1587)
His armies came together, & made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
Legacy Standard Bible
His troops come together,And build up their way against meAnd camp around my tent.
Berean Standard Bible
His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
Contemporary English Version
His entire army advances, then surrounds my tent.
Complete Jewish Bible
His troops advance together, they make their way against me and encamp around my tent.
Darby Translation
His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.
Easy-to-Read Version
He sends his army to attack me. They build attack towers around me. They camp around my tent.
George Lamsa Translation
His messengers have come together against me; they debated their ways against me, and encamped round about my tent.
Good News Translation
He sends his army to attack me; they dig trenches and lay siege to my tent.
Lexham English Bible
His troops have come together and have thrown up their rampart against me and have encamped around my tent.
Literal Translation
His troops come together and they heap up their way against me; and they camp around my tent.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
His men of warre came together, which made their waye ouer me, and beseged my dwellinge rounde aboute.
American Standard Version
His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.
Bible in Basic English
His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.
King James Version (1611)
His troupes come together, and raise vp their way against me, and encampe round about my tabernacle.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
His men of warre come together, which made their way ouer me, and besieged my dwelling rounde about.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
His troops also came upon me with one accord, liars in wait compassed my ways.
English Revised Version
His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hise theues camen togidere, and `maden to hem a wei bi me; and bisegiden my tabernacle in cumpas.
Update Bible Version
His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.
Webster's Bible Translation
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp around my tabernacle.
New King James Version
His troops come together And build up their road against me; They encamp all around my tent.
New Living Translation
His troops advance. They build up roads to attack me. They camp all around my tent.
New Life Bible
His armies come together and build a path against me. They camp around my tent.
New Revised Standard
His troops come on together; they have thrown up siegeworks against me, and encamp around my tent.
Douay-Rheims Bible
His troops have come together, and have made themselves a way by me, and have besieged my tabernacle round about.
Revised Standard Version
His troops come on together; they have cast up siegeworks against me, and encamp round about my tent.
Young's Literal Translation
Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"His troops come together, And build up their way against me And camp around my tent.

Contextual Overview

8 My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest; 9 My glory - from off me, hath he stripped, and hath removed the crown of my head; 10 He hath ruined me on every side, and I am gone, and he hath taken away - like a tree - my hope; 11 Yea he hath kindled against me his anger, and accounted me towards him like unto his adversaries; 12 Together, enter his troops and have cast up, against me, their mound, and have encamped all around my tent; 13 My Brethren - from beside me, hath he moved far away, and, mine acquaintance, are wholly estranged from me; 14 Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me; 15 Ye guests of my house and my maidens, A stranger, have ye accounted me, An alien, have I become in their eyes; 16 To mine own servant, I called, and he would not answer, With mine own mouth, I kept entreating him; 17 My breath, is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my own mother;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

His: Job 16:11, Isaiah 10:5, Isaiah 10:6, Isaiah 51:23

raise: Job 30:12

Reciprocal: Psalms 88:18 - Lover

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
And Yahweh said to Noah, Enter thou and all thy house, into the ark, - for, thee, have I seen righteous before me, in this generation.
Genesis 19:14
And Lot went forth and spake unto his sons-in - law who were about to take his two daughters and said Arise come forth out of this place, for Yahweh is about to destroy the city. And it came to pass, that he was as one that laughed, in the eyes of his sons-in-law.
Genesis 19:17
And it came to pass when they had brought them forth outside, that they said, Escape for thy life, Look not behind thee, neither stand still in all the vale, - To the mountain, escape thou lest thou be swept away.
Genesis 19:22
Haste thee escape thither, for I cannot do anything, until thou have come in thither. For this cause: was the name of the city called Zoar.
Genesis 19:23
When, the sun, had come forth on the earth, Lot had entered into Zoar.
Numbers 16:26
And he spake unto the assembly, saying - Remove I pray you from beside the tents of these lawless men, and do not touch aught that pertaineth unto them, - lest ye be carried off, in all their sins.
Jeremiah 32:39
And I will give them one heart, and one way, That they may revere me, all the days, - For the good of them and of their children after them;
2 Peter 2:7
And, righteous Lot, when getting worn out by the behaviour of them who were impious in wantonness, he rescued -
2 Peter 2:9
Then the Lord knoweth how to rescue, the godly out of trial; but to keep, the unrighteous unto a day of judgment to be punished; -
Revelation 18:4
And I heard another voice out of heaven, saying - Come forth, my people, out of her, - that ye may have no fellowship with her sins, and, of her plagues, that ye may not receive;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

His troops come together,.... Afflictions which are many, and of which it may be said, as was at the birth of God, who had his name from the word here used, "a troop cometh": Genesis 30:11; and these sometimes come together, or follow so quick one upon another, that there is scarce any interval between them, as did Job's afflictions; and they are God's hosts, his troops, his soldiers, which are at his command; and he says to them, as the centurion did to his, to the one, Go, and he goes, and to another, Come, and it comes:

and raise up their way against me; as an army, when it comes against a place, throws up a bank to raise their artillery upon, that they may play it to greater advantage; or make a broad causeway, for the soldiers to march abreast against it; or an high cast up way, as the word y signifies, over a ditch or dirty place in a hollow, that they may the better pass over: some read it, "they raise up their way upon me" z; he opposing and standing in the way was crushed down by them, and trampled upon, and over whom they passed as on an highway, and in a beaten path; see Isaiah 51:23; but most render it, "against me"; for Job looked upon all his afflictions, as Jacob did Genesis 42:36, to be against him, to militate against him, and threaten him with ruin, when they were all working for him, even for his good:

and encamp round about my tabernacle: as an army round about a city when besieging it. Job may have respect to the tabernacle of his body, as that is sometimes so called, 2 Corinthians 5:1; and to the diseases of it; which being a complication, might be said to encamp about him, or surround him on all sides.

y ויסלו "aggerant", Cocceius, Schultens; "straverunt", Montanus, Schmidt; a מסלה "via strata et elevata", Mercerus, Drusius. z עלי "super me", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Schmidt, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.


 
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