Albert Barnes Commentary Job 19:12

"His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent." — Job 19:12 (ASV)

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 an 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 means to take it (see the note on Isaiah 40:3; and the note on Isaiah 57:14).

And encamp around 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.