Being surrounded ( they encamp all around my tent).Having a siege set against him ( build up their road against me).Being like an uprooted tree ( my hope He has uprooted like a tree).Being like a wall torn down ( He breaks me down on every side).Dethronement ( taken the crown from my head).Captivity ( I cannot pass and He has set darkness in my paths).We can see the reverse progress starting at Job 19:8: They encamp all around my tent: In Job 19:8-12, Job recounts the reverse progression of an ancient siege and conquering of a city yet the irony was that Job was not like a mighty city, but only like a humble tent. God put Job into a place where he was expected to believe despite what seemed to be irrefutable circumstances and personal feelings.Į. He counts me as one of His enemies: Though Job could not comprehend it (nor be expected to), God still held him in special favor and care. He was like a king uncrowned, like a house with its walls broken down, and like an uprooted tree.ĭ. He has stripped me of my glory…: With a deeply moving poetic style, Job described how he felt God had brought him low. He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass: This is reminiscent of Job’s complaint in Job 3:23, where he sadly said that he was one whom God has hedged in.Ĭ. Job’s great grief was, that neither God nor man would regard his moans or deliver him out of the net.” (Trapp)ī. “Nothing is more natural and usual than for men in misery to cry out for help. Yet now when he cried out to heaven, he heard no reply. Job was accustomed to finding comfort and some sense of an answer from God in his previous trials. If I cry out concerning wrong, I am not heard: Job here complained at what was the core of his crisis. He has also kindled His wrath against me,Ī. He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass “If I cry out concerning wrong, I am not heard. (7-12) Job describes how God has attacked him. So Job was not totally wrong when he said, ‘The hand of God has struck me’ (19:21).” (Smick) 2. And God had replied, ‘Very well, then, he is in your hands’ (2:6). “In a sense the Accuser was acting as the hand of God, for he had said to God, ‘But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh’ (2:5).

And of course, allowing for the emotional aspect of this pained outpouring, we understand how Job would say, “ Know then that God has wronged me.” He had reason to think this, and poured out his honest feelings before God and his friends.

If God had sent or allowed this calamity in Job’s life, it could be said that God had wronged Job because the calamity was not a just penalty for some sin in Job. Know then that God has wronged me, and has surrounded me with His net: Job insisted to his friends that he was not a guilty victim before a righteous God. And if indeed I have erred, My error remains with me: Job was steadfast in his refusal to agree with his friends that he had caused his crisis by some remarkable sin and refusal to repent.Ĭ. May all those who follow their steps be equally enrolled in the annals of bad fame!” (Clarke)ī. “Job’s friends have been, by the general consent of posterity, consigned to endless infamy. But he may be ever so unsound in love, and they don’t say anything.” (D.L. If a man becomes unsound in the faith, they draw their ecclesiastical swords and cut at him. “The church has become very jealous about men being unsound in the faith. We might say that many in the church today are as unloving as Job’s friends were. We ought to be very careful what we say to those who are suffering affliction and trial, for a word, though it seems to be a very little thing, will often cut far more deeply and wound far more terribly than a razor would.” (Spurgeon) “They struck at him with their hard words, as if they were breaking stones on the roadside. How long will you torment my soul: Job answered Bildad with a familiar complaint, that his friends were unsympathetic tormentors of his soul. If indeed you exalt yourselves against me,Ī. You are not ashamed that you have wronged me. (1-6) Job complains that his friends have not understood him at all. Job 19 – Job’s Answer to Bildad: “I Know That My Redeemer Lives” A.

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