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Job 30:10
They abhor me, they flee far from me, shunning him with a most abject abhorrence, and spare not to spit in my face, as an expression of their unbounded contempt. So greatly had Job been degraded by God.
They abhor me, they flee far from me, shunning him with a most abject abhorrence, and spare not to spit in my face, as an expression of their unbounded contempt. So greatly had Job been degraded by God.
Verse Job 30:10. _THEY ABHOR ME_] What a state must civil society be in when such indignities were permitted to be offered to the aged and afflicted!...
THEY ABHOR ME - Hebrew, They regard me as abominable. THEY FLEE FAR FROM ME - Even such an impious and low born race now will have nothing to do with me. They would consider it no honor to be associa...
CHAPTER 30 _ 1. His present humiliation and shame (Job 30:1)_ 2. No answer from God: completely forsaken (Job 30:20) Job 30:1. He had spoken of his past greatness and now he describes his present mi...
JOB 30. JOB'S PRESENT MISERY. As the text stands at present, Job begins by complaining that the very abjects of society now despise him. Many scholars, however, detach Job 30:2 as a misplaced section...
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Job's treatment now at the hands of these outcasts. With "spit in my face" comp. ch. Job 17:6. In ch. 24. Job referred to this miserable race With compassion; they had often no doubt excited his pity...
THEY ABHOR ME, &C.— _They abominate me: they hold me in the utmost abhorrence, and fear not to spit in my face._ Houb. Heath reads, _They hold me in abhorrence; they go out at a distance from me; nay,...
2. Sorrowful description of his present sad estate (Job 30:1-31) a. The contempt he has from men of lowest class (Job 30:1-15) TEXT 30:1-15 1 BUT NOW THEY THAT ARE YOUNGER THAN I HAVE ME IN DERISIO...
_THEY ABHOR ME, THEY FLEE FAR FROM ME, AND SPARE NOT TO SPIT IN MY FACE._ In my face - rather, refrain not to spit (in deliberate contempt) before my face. To spit at all in presence of another is th...
JOB'S PRESENT MISERY Job bitterly contrasts his present with his past condition, as described in Job 29. It must be borne in mind that Job was now outcast and beggared. 1-8. Job complains that he is...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 30 JOB MAKES A LIST OF HIS...
Formerly the most important people would gather to listen to Job. And they respected Job greatly. But now, the worst youths would gather to see Job. They would insult Job. And they would laugh at him...
תִּֽ֭עֲבוּנִי רָ֣חֲקוּ מֶ֑נִּי וּ֝ מִ פָּנַ֗י...
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1; Job 30:1; Job 31:1 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job looks back to the y...
Immediately Job passed to the description of his present condition, which is all the more startling as it stands in contrast with what he had said concerning the past. He first described the base who...
_Face. This most people explain literally; while some, (Calmet) as Job was herein a figure of Christ, (Menochius; Matthew xxvi.; Worthington) think that the expression denotes the utmost contempt; (St...
(1) В¶ But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. (2) Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit m...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
THEY ABHOR ME,.... As it is no wonder they should, since his inward and most intimate friends did, Job 19:19; they abhorred him, not for any evil in him; Job was ready enough to abhor that himself, an...
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. Ver. 10. _They abhor me, they flee far from me_] As if I were a leper or a bugbear, or that my breath were infectious; like tha...
_They were children of fools_, &c. They were children of base, obscure parents; viler than the earth upon which they trod. Houbigant translates the verse: _Foolish men and inglorious, they were driven...
MOCKED BY HIS INFERIORS (vv.1-8) What a contrast was Job's condition now! Prominent men of dignity had once shown Job every respect, but now young men of what might be considered the lowest class, w...
AND SPARE NOT TO SPIT IN MY FACE: _ Heb._ and withhold not spittle from my face...
Even the low-life do not want to associate with Job, and they even spit upon him....
1-14 Job contrasts his present condition with his former honour and authority. What little cause have men to be ambitious or proud of that which may be so easily lost, and what little confidence is to...
THEY FLEE FAR FROM ME, in contempt of my person, and loathing of my sores. SPARE NOT TO SPIT IN MY FACE; not literally, for they kept far from him, as he now said; but figuratively, i.e. they use all...
Job 30:10 abhor H8581 (H8765) far H7368 (H8804) hesitate H2820 (H8804) spit H7536 face H6440 abhor me -...
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He reviews his present condition. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: The best saints often receive the worst of indignities from a spiteful and scornful wor...
Job 30:1. _The dogs of my flock._ Job does not say this through pride, for he owns that the slave and himself were formed by the same hand: Job 31:15. He says it rather with a view to describe the sin...
_But now they that are younger than I have me in derision._ JOB’S SOCIAL DISABILITIES Man’s happiness as a social being is greatly dependent upon the kind feeling and respect which is shown to him b...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:9 Job describes his three friends as casting off any RESTRAINT, as if they were taking advantage of an easy military conquest (THROUGH A WIDE BREACH)....
_THE CONTRAST.—JOB’S SOLILOQUY, CONTINUED_ With his former state of happiness and honour Job now contrasts his present misery and degradation. His object as well to show the grounds he has for complai...
EXPOSITION JOB 30:1 The contrast is now completed. Having drawn the portrait of himself as he was, rich, honoured, blessed with children, flourishing, in favour with both God and man, Job now present...
But now, chapter 30, he tells of the present condition. And just as glorious as was the past, so depressing is the present. But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I wo...
Deuteronomy 25:9; Isaiah 50:6; Job 19:13; Job 19:14; Job 19:19;...
Spit — Not literally, for they kept far from him, but figuratively, they use all manner of reproachful expressions, even to my face. Herein, also we see a type of Christ, who was thus made a reproach...