Job 1:10

“Hast not thou made an hedge about him, etc.] A fence, a wall of protection all around him? he had; he encompassed him about with his love as with a shield, a hedge which could not be broken down by men or devils; he surrounded him with his almighty power, that none could hurt him; he guarded him by his providence, he caused his angels to encamp about him; yea, he himself was a wall of fire around him; the Targum interprets it the word of God: so thick was the hedge, so strong the fence, that Satan could not find the least gap to get in at, to do him any injury to his body or mind, without the divine permission; which he envied and was vexed at, and maliciously suggests that this was the…”

“his substance is increased--literally, "spread out like a flood"; Job's herds covered the face of the country.”

“Hast thou not made an hedge about him? - Dr. Good remarks, that to give the original word here its full force, it should be derived from the science of engineering, and be rendered, “Hast thou not raised a “palisado” about him?” The Hebrew word used here (שׂוּך śûk) properly means “to hedge”; to hedge in or about; and hence, to protect, as one is defended whose house or farm is hedged in either with a fence of thorns, or with an enclosure of stakes or palisades. The word in its various forms is used to denote, as a noun, “pricks in the eyes” Numbers 33:55; that is, that which would be like thorns; “barbed irons” Job 41:7, that is, the barbed iron used as a spear to take fish; and a hedge,…”

“1:10 wall of protection: See 1 Sam 25:16; Pss 5:12; 34:7; Zech 2:5; cp. Isa 5:5.”

“an hedge: Gen 15:1; Deu 33:27; Sa1 25:16; Psa 5:12, Psa 34:7, Psa 80:12; Isa 5:2, Isa 5:5; Zac 2:5, Zac 2:8; Pe1 1:5 about: Gen 39:5; Deu 28:2-6; Psa 71:21, Psa 128:1-4 thou hast blessed: Job 42:12; Gen 26:12, Gen 30:30, Gen 49:25; Deu 7:13, Deu 33:11; Psa 90:17, Psa 107:38; Pro 10:22 substance: or, cattle, Gen 30:43 Job 1:11”