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His troops come on together, Build a siege ramp against me, And encamp around my tent.
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A Divine Siege
Commentators unanimously highlight Job's use of military language. He describes his afflictions not as random events, but as God's 'troops' conducting a coordinated siege. They build ramps ('cast up their way') and surround his tent, illustrating a feeling of being strategically and relentlessly targeted by overwhelming suffering.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
His troops - The calamities which he had sent, and which are here represented as “armies” or “soldiers” to accomplish his work. It is not pr…
19th Century
Baptist
Troops of trouble, troops of Chaldeans and Sabeans, troops in which Job counted the stormy winds as terrible allies of the Most High, – all these h…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
His troops come together Afflictions which are many, and of which it may be said, as was at the birth of Gad, who ha…
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How sorrowful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God? Seared consciences will feel it in the afterlife, but do not fea…
13th Century
Catholic
In the previous discourse, it seems Bildad intended two things. First, he intended to refute Job for his stupidity, pride, and anger ([Reference Jo…
