Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 19:11
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as [one of] his enemies.
11 12. Figures of hostile assault; God directs charge after charge of His army against Him. The reference is to his afflictions, cf. ch. Job 10:17.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
He hath also kindled his wrath – He is angry. Wrath in the Scriptures is usually represented as burning or inflamed – because like fire it destroys everything before it.
And he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies – He treats me as he would an enemy. The same complaint he elsewhere makes; see Job 13:24; perhaps also in Job 16:9. We are not to understand Job here as admitting that he was an enemy of God. He constantly maintained that he was not, but he was constrained to admit that God treated him as if he were his enemy, and he could not account for it. On this ground, therefore, he now maintains that his friends ought to show him compassion, instead of trying to prove that he was an enemy of God; they ought to pity a man who was so strangely and mysteriously afflicted, instead of increasing his sorrows by endeavoring to demonstrate that he was a man of eminent wickedness.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 11. And he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.] From the seventh to the thirteenth verse there seems to be an allusion to a hostile invasion, battles, sieges, c.
1. A neighbouring chief, without provocation, invades his neighbour’s territories, and none of his friends will come to his help. “I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard,” Job 19:7.
2. The foe has seized on all the passes, and he is hemmed up. “He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass,” Job 19:8.
3. He has surprised and carried by assault the regal city, seized and possessed the treasures. “He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head,” Job 19:9.
4. All his armies are routed in the field, and his strong places carried. “He hath destroyed me on every side,” Job 19:10.
5. The enemy proceeds to the greatest length of outrage, wasting every thing with fire and sword. “He hath kindled his wrath against me, and treateth me like one of his adversaries, Job 19:11.
6. He is cooped up in a small camp with the wrecks of his army and in this he is closely besieged by all the power of his foes, who encompass the place, and raise forts against it. “His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.”
7. Not receiving any assistance from friends or neighbours, he abandons all hope of being able to keep the field, escapes with the utmost difficulty, and is despised and neglected by his friends and domestics because he has been unfortunate. “I am escaped with the skin of my teeth,” Job 19:20. “My kinsfolk have failed-all my intimate friends abhorred me,” Job 19:14-19.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
He hath stirred up his wrath against me of his own accord, without any provocation of mine, human infirmity excepted.
He counteth me unto him as one of his enemies, i.e. he useth me as sharply as if I were an inveterate enemy of God and of all goodness, though he knoweth I am and have ever been a hearty lover and servant of him.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
11. enemies (Job 13:24;Lam 2:5).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He hath also kindled his wrath against me,…. In this and some following verses the metaphor is taken from a state of warfare, in which enemies are engaged in an hostile way, Job 19:12; in which way Job apprehended God was come forth against him; he imagined that the wrath of God, which is comparable to fire for its force and fury, was kindled against him; that it began to appear, and was bursting out in a flame upon him, and all around him, to consume him; he thought his afflictions were in wrath, which is often the mistaken apprehension of good men, see Ps 38:1; and that the terrors of it were set in battle array against him, Job 6:4;
and he counted me unto him as [one of] his enemies; all men are by nature enemies to God, yea, enmity itself, and so are his own people while unregenerate, until the enmity of their hearts is slain, and they are reconciled to God by his spirit and grace; but as Job was truly a gracious man, and possessed of the fruits of the spirit, he must among the rest of his graces have the love of God in his heart; and he was sensible and conscious to himself that he was no enemy to God, and could appeal to him, as the searcher of hearts, that he knew he loved him; nay, he could not believe that God reckoned him his enemy, when he had given such a testimony of him, and of his fear of him, that there was none like him; and when Job so strongly trusted in him for salvation, and believed he should enjoy him for ever: but his sense is, that God treated him, by afflicting him in the manner he did, as if he was one of his enemies; had he really been one, he could not have used him, he thought, more roughly and severely; so that, judging according to the outward appearance of things, it might be concluded, as it seems it was by his friends, that he was a wicked man, an hypocrite, an enemy to God and godliness; but whereas Job thought that God dealt with him as with an enemy, he was mistaken; since when God afflicts his people, he deals with them as with sons, Heb 12:7.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(11) He hath also kindled . . .Comp. Job. 16:9; Job. 16:12, &c.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
11. One of his enemies Hebrew, his foes; not one, but several. God treats him as if he were many enemies in one.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 19:11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as [one of] his enemies.
Ver. 11. He hath also kindled his wrath against me ] Now if his wrath was kindled, yea, but a little, woe be to all those against whom it is bent. He will surely heap mischiefs upon them, he will spend his arrows upon them, Deu 32:22-23 Psa 2:12 . Job felt them striking in the sides of his soul, even the envenomed arrows of the Almighty; and yet this was only a refiner’s fire, Mal 3:2 , or, if a consuming fire, as Heb 12:29 , yet it was to waste his corruptions only, to sever the sin which he hated from the Son whom he loved; to try and exercise his patience, &c., all which notwithstanding, he complaineth heavily about these spunks and sparks of divine displeasure.
And counteth me unto him as one of his enemies
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
kindled: Deu 32:22, Psa 89:46, Psa 90:7
he counteth: Job 13:24, Job 16:9, Job 33:10, Lam 2:5
Reciprocal: Gen 42:14 – General Job 31:35 – mine Jer 30:14 – I