Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Job 30:2
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, what use could he possibly make of it, in whom old age was perished, whose mode of living kept them from reaching full manly vigor?
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, what use could he possibly make of it, in whom old age was perished, whose mode of living kept them from reaching full manly vigor?
Verse Job 30:2. _THE STRENGTH OF THEIR HANDS_ PROFIT _ME_] He is speaking here of the fathers of these young men. What was the strength of their hands to me? Their old age also has perished. The sens...
YEA, WHERETO MIGHT THE STRENGTH OF THEIR HANDS PROFIT ME - There has been much difference of opinion respecting the meaning of this passage. The general sense is clear. Job means to describe those who...
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...
The verse refers to the _fathers_(Job 30:1), and gives the reason why Job did not employ them, or consider them worthy of a treatment equal to that of his dogs they were enfeebled and fallen into prem...
YEA, WHERETO MIGHT THE STRENGTH, &C.— _For of what use was the labour of their hands to me, since all life was destroyed in them?_ Heath. Houbigant renders the last clause, _When all their health or s...
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...
_YEA, WHERETO MIGHT THE STRENGTH OF THEIR HANDS PROFIT ME, IN WHOM OLD AGE WAS PERISHED?_ If their fathers could be of no profit to me, much less the sons, who are feebler than their sires; and in who...
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...
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...
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...
WHERETO MIGHT THE STRENGTH OF THEIR HANDS PROFIT ME, is the description of the fathers; Job 30:3 _seqq._ describes their children. The people here spoken of seem to have been somewhat similar to those...
גַּם ־כֹּ֣חַ יְ֭דֵיהֶם לָ֣מָּה לִּ֑י עָ֝לֵ֗ימֹו...
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...
Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was (c) perished? (c) That is, their fathers died of hunger before they came to age....
_And they. Hebrew, "Their old age is perished." They were good for nothing all their lives. (Calmet)_...
(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...
YEA, WHERETO [MIGHT] THE STRENGTH OF THEIR HANDS [PROFIT] ME,.... For though they were strong, lusty, hale men, able to do business, yet their strength was to sit still and fold their hands in their b...
Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished? Ver. 2. _Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me_] For, to say the truth (thus Beza here p...
_Yea, whereto might their hands profit me?_ Nor was it strange that I did, or might refuse to take them into any of my meanest services, being utterly impotent and unfit for any business; _in whom old...
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...
Such people are useless and weak, unfit and unable to do hard work, that is, unwilling to work hard. It could be that Job had actually tried hiring some of these men and found them absolutely useless....
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...
Nor was it strange that I did, or would. or might refuse to take them into any of my meanest services, because they were utterly impotent, and therefore unserviceable. IN WHOM OLD AGE WAS PERISHED; or...
Job 30:2 Indeed H4100 strength H3581 hands H3027 vigor H3624 perished H6 (H8804)...
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 30:1 Although Job had delivered the truly needy from their unrighteous oppressors (Job 29:11), those who now mock him are themselves needy, because of their own actions and foolishness...
_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...
Isaiah 10:13; Job 5:26...