Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Job 30:19
He hath cast me into the mire, as an evidence of His great contempt, and I am become like dust and ashes, both on account of the appearance of his skin and the dirt which he had strewn upon himself.
He hath cast me into the mire, as an evidence of His great contempt, and I am become like dust and ashes, both on account of the appearance of his skin and the dirt which he had strewn upon himself.
HE HATH CAST ME INTO THE MIRE - That is, God has done it. In this book the name of God is often understood where the speaker seems to avoid it, in order that it may not be needlessly repeated. On the...
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...
b. His unhappy misery (Job 30:16-23) TEXT 30:16-23 16 AND NOW MY SOUL IS POURED OAT WITHIN ME; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And t...
_AND NOW MY SOUL IS POURED OUT UPON ME; THE DAYS OF AFFLICTION HAVE TAKEN HOLD UPON ME._ Job's outward calamities affect his mind. POURED OUT - in irrepressible complaints (Psalms 42:4; Joshua 7:5)...
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...
Job was suffering pain because of his illness. The pain reminded him of clothing that someone cannot remove. So the pain affected Job’s whole body. The pain also reminded Job of a collar. It felt as i...
HE HATH CAST ME INTO THE MIRE. — He now turns more directly to God, having in Job 30:16 turned from man to his own condition — _dust and ashes._ This latter phrase is used but three times in Scripture...
הֹרָ֥נִי לַ † חֹ֑מֶר וָ֝ אֶתְמַשֵּׁ֗ל כֶּ...
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...
(n) He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. (n) That is, God has brought me into contempt....
_I am. Hebrew, "He hat cast me into the mire;" (Protestants) or, "He regards me as dirt; my portion is on the earth and dust." (Haydock) --- All look upon me with horror and contempt. (Calmet)_...
(19) He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. (20) I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. (21) Thou art become cruel to me: with...
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...
HE HATH CAST ME INTO THE MIRE,.... As Jeremiah was literally; here it is to be understood in a figurative sense; not of the mire of sin, into which God casts none, men fall into it of themselves, but...
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. Ver. 19. _He hath cast me into the mire_] My disease hath, so Vatablus senseth it. Others, God hath as it were trampled me to dirt,...
_By the great force of my disease_, &c. The words, _of my disease_, are not in the Hebrew, neither do they seem to be rightly supplied, but rather to obscure the sense of the clause, which, without an...
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...
God had cast him into the mire or the mud, Job felt that God was behind this humiliation....
15-31 Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried...
He hath made me contemptible and filthy, and loathsome for my sores, my whole body being a kind of quagmire, in regard of the filth breaking forth in all its parts; AND I AM BECOME LIKE DUST AND ASHES...
Job 30:19 cast H3384 (H8689) mire H2563 like H4911 (H8691) dust H6083 ashes H665 cast 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...
_The days of affliction have taken hold upon me._ PHYSICAL PAIN In these verses the patriarch sketches his great corporeal sufferings, his physical anguish. Probably man’s capability of bodily suffe...
_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...
Genesis 18:27; Jeremiah 38:6; Job 2:8; Job 42:6; Job 9:31;...