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John Gill's Exposition on Job 19:12
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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His troops come together, etc.] 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”: (<013011>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 f728 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” f729; 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 <235123>Isaiah 51:23); but most render it, “against me”; for Job looked upon all his afflictions, as Jacob did (<014236>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, (<470501>2 Corinthians 5:1 <610113>2 Peter 1:13,14); and to the diseases of it; which being a complication, might be said to encamp about him, or surround him on all sides.
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