The Meaning of Job 19:12 Explained

Job 19:12

KJV: His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

YLT: Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.

Darby: His troops have come together and cast up their way against me, and have encamped round about my tent.

ASV: His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

His troops  come  together,  and raise up  their way  against me, and encamp  round about  my tabernacle. 

What does Job 19:12 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 19:1-29 - "i Know That My Redeemer Liveth"
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 kith and kin were alienated; it seemed as if the Almighty had an antipathy against him. So great was his physical suffering that the only sound part of his body seemed to be the skin of his gums and his teeth, Job 19:20 (that is, all he could do was to speak). Then he suddenly breaks into the majestic utterance of Job 19:25-26.
Among the Bedouins the institution of the goel-or kinsman representative-still exists for the avenging of wrong done to a kinsman: and Job believed that his divine Goel would one day stand on the earth for his vindication. Yes, and more, he felt that somehow he, too, would arise from the very grave to hear that vindication spoken by those just and true lips. Above all, he would see God Himself standing with him-whom I"¦ shall see, on my side, Job 19:27, r.v. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 19

1  Job, complaining of his friends' cruelty,
6  shows there is misery enough in him to feed their cruelty
21  He craves pity
23  He believes the resurrection

What do the individual words in Job 19:12 mean?

Together come His troops and build up against me their road and they encamp all around my tent
יַ֤חַד ׀ יָ֘בֹ֤אוּ גְדוּדָ֗יו וַיָּסֹ֣לּוּ עָלַ֣י דַּרְכָּ֑ם וַיַּחֲנ֖וּ סָבִ֣יב לְאָהֳלִֽי

יַ֤חַד ׀  Together 
Parse: Adverb
Root: יַחַד 
Sense: union, unitedness adv.
יָ֘בֹ֤אוּ  come 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: בֹּוא 
Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.
גְדוּדָ֗יו  His  troops 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, third person masculine singular
Root: גְּדוּד  
Sense: a band, troop, marauding band.
וַיָּסֹ֣לּוּ  and  build  up 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: סָלַל 
Sense: to lift up, cast up, exalt.
עָלַ֣י  against  me 
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
דַּרְכָּ֑ם  their  road 
Parse: Noun, common singular construct, third person masculine plural
Root: דֶּרֶךְ  
Sense: way, road, distance, journey, manner.
וַיַּחֲנ֖וּ  and  they  encamp 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: חָנָה  
Sense: to decline, incline, encamp, bend down, lay siege against.
סָבִ֣יב  all  around 
Parse: Adverb
Root: מוּסָב 
Sense: places round about, circuit, round about adv.
לְאָהֳלִֽי  my  tent 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: אֹהֶל  
Sense: tent.

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