The Meaning of Job 19:11 Explained

Job 19:11

KJV: He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

YLT: And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.

Darby: And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies.

ASV: He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as one of his adversaries.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

He hath also kindled  his wrath  against me, and he counteth  me unto him as [one of] his enemies. 

What does Job 19:11 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 19:11 mean?

And He has kindled against me His wrath and He counts me to as [one of] His enemies
וַיַּ֣חַר עָלַ֣י אַפּ֑וֹ וַיַּחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי ל֣וֹ כְצָרָֽיו

וַיַּ֣חַר  And  He  has  kindled 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: חָרָה  
Sense: to be hot, furious, burn, become angry, be kindled.
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.
אַפּ֑וֹ  His  wrath 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: אַף 
Sense: nostril, nose, face.
וַיַּחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי  and  He  counts  me 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular, first person common singular
Root: חָשַׁב 
Sense: to think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count.
כְצָרָֽיו  as  [one  of]  His  enemies 
Parse: Preposition-k, Noun, masculine plural construct, third person masculine singular
Root: צַר 
Sense: narrow, tight.