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Verse Job 30:27. _MY BOWELS BOILED_] This alludes to the strong
commotion in the bowels which every humane person feels at the sight
of one in misery....
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MY BOWELS BOILED - Or rather, My bowels boil - for he refers to his
present circumstances, and not to the past. It is clear that by this
phrase he designs to describe deep affliction. The bowels, in t...
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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...
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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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PREVENTED. came on....
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c. The disappointment of all his hopes (Job 30:24-31)
TEXT 30:24-31
24 HOWBEIT DOTH NOT ONE STRETCH OUT THE HAND IN HIS FALL:
Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
25 Did not I weep for him t...
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_MY BOWELS BOILED, AND RESTED NOT: THE DAYS OF AFFLICTION PREVENTED
ME._
Bowels - regarded as the seat of deep feeling (Isaiah 16:11).
BOILED - violently heated and agitated.
PREVENTED - old Engl...
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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...
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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...
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In verses 28 and 30, Job spoke about the terrible illness that
affected his skin. Job had painful spots over his whole body (Job
2:7). In these verses, Job explained that his skin had become dark.
And...
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MY BOWELS BOILED. — The sense is better expressed by the present,
“My bowels boil, and rest not. Days of affliction have overtaken me
unawares.” (See last verse.)...
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מֵעַ֖י רֻתְּח֥וּ וְ לֹא ־דָ֗מּוּ
קִדְּמֻ֥נִי...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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MY BOWELS BOILED, AND RESTED NOT,.... All contained within him, his
heart, lungs, and liver, in a literal sense, through a violent fever
burning within him; or figuratively, being under great distress...
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My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
Ver. 27. _My bowels boiled, and rested not_] Being tossed and tumbled
with continual boiling and bubbling, rumbling and making a...
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_My bowels boiled_ Namely, with the violence of my disorder; _and
rested not_ Hebrew, ולא דמו, _velo damu_, and were not silent.
_The days of affliction prevented me_ Came upon me suddenly and
unexpec...
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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...
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Inwardly, Job was in emotional turmoil, literally he was "boiling" on
the inside. He was unable to relax or come to terms with any of this,
and only affliction confronted him day after day....
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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...
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My inward parts boiled without ceasing. The bowels are the seat of
passion and of compassion; and therefore this may be understood,
either,
1. Of his compassionate and deep sense of others miseries; w...
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Job 30:27 heart H4578 turmoil H7570 (H8795) rest H1826 (H8804) Days
H3117 affliction H6040 confront H6923 ...
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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...
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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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:24 Job pictures himself as one of those whose
cries for HELP he used to answer (vv. Job 30:24). In his own distress
he has only found...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Jeremiah 31:20; Jeremiah 4:19; Lamentations 1:20; Lamentations 2:11;...
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Affliction — Came upon me suddenly, and unexpectedly, when I
promised myself peace and prosperity....