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Verse Job 30:20. _I CRY UNTO THEE_] I am persecuted by man, afflicted
with sore disease, and apparently forsaken of God.
_I STAND UP_] Or, as some translate, "_I persevere_, and thou lookest
upon me....
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I CRY UNTO THEE, AND THOU DOST NOT HEAR ME - This was a complaint
which Job often made, that he could not get the ear of God; that his
prayer was not regarded, and that he could not get his cause befo...
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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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HEAR. answer....
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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...
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_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)...
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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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REGARDEST ME _NOT_] rather, 'lookest at me,' with indifference to his
sufferings....
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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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Job accused God. God seemed so powerful. And Job was very weak. Job
thought that God was using his great power to kill Job.
It seems strange to remember Job 2:3. The truth is that God was proud
of Jo...
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THOU REGARDEST ME NOT. — The Authorised Version understands that the
negative of the first clause must be supplied in the second, as is the
case in Psalms 9:18 : “The needy shall not always be forgott...
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אֲשַׁוַּ֣ע אֵ֭לֶיךָ וְ לֹ֣א
תַעֲנֵ֑נִי עָ֝מַ֗דְתִּי...
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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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_Not is supplied by Protestants in the second part of the verse from
the first; (Haydock) as this construction is not unusual in the
Hebrew. Septuagint, "they have stood up, and have considered me,"
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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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I CRY UNTO THEE, AND THOU DOST NOT HEAR ME,.... Which added greatly to
his affliction, that though he cried to the Lord for help and
deliverance, yet he turned a deaf ear to him; and though he heard h...
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I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou
regardest me [not].
Ver. 20. _I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me_] This was a
sore trial, that God should cast him into strait...
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_Thou dost not hear me_ Namely, so as to answer or help me. _I stand
up_ Namely, before thee: I pray importunately and continually, as thou
requirest; _and thou regardest me not_ Notwithstanding all m...
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I cry unto Thee, and Thou dost not hear me, God acted as though He
paid no attention to Job's pleading; I STAND UP, AND THOU REGARDEST ME
NOT, looking at him fixedly, indeed, but in the absent-minded...
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THE UNSPEAKABLE MISERY AND DISAPPOINTMENT WITH WHICH JOB BATTLED...
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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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"I CRY OUT TO YOU FOR HELP": Added to both his social rejection and
physical pain, Job feels that God had abandoned him. He had cried to
God for help, but God had ignored his pleas, Job had even "stoo...
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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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Job 30:20 cry H7768 (H8762) answer H6030 (H8799) up H5975 (H8804)
regard H995 (H8709)
I cry -...
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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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_I cry unto Thee, and Thou dost not hear me._
UNANSWERED PRAYER
1. There is no state so low but a godly man may have a freedom with
God in prayer. Though a poor soul be in the mire, though he be but...
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_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...
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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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Job 19:7; Job 27:9; Lamentations 3:44; Lamentations 3:8; Matthew 15:23
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I stand — I pray importunately and continually....