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Verse Job 30:23. _THOU WILT BRING ME_ TO _DEATH_] This must be the
issue of my present affliction: to God alone it is possible that I
should survive it.
To _THE HOUSE APPOINTED FOR ALL LIVING. _] Or...
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FOR I KNOW THAT THOU WILT BRING ME TO DEATH - This is the language of
despair. Occasionally Job seems to have had an assurance that his
calamities would pass by, and that God would show himself to be...
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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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DISCOURSE: 480
THE CERTAINTY OF DEATH
Job 30:23. _I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house
appointed for all living_.
WE cannot certainly know the ultimate intentions of Providence f...
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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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HOUSE APPOINTED] RM 'house of meeting.' Job is convinced that his
sufferings can only end in death....
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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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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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כִּֽי ־יָ֭דַעְתִּי מָ֣וֶת
תְּשִׁיבֵ֑נִי וּ בֵ֖ית...
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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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_Liveth. Death is a relief to a just man in tribulation.
(Worthington)_...
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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 HOUSE APPOINTED FOR ALL LIVING_
‘For I know that Thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house
appointed for all living.’
Job 30:23
I. THE REFLECTIONS SUGGESTED.—(_a_) Death and the grave are...
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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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FOR I KNOW [THAT] THOU WILT BRING ME [TO] DEATH,.... Quickly and by
the present affliction upon him; he was assured, as he thought, that
this was the view and design of God in this providence, under w...
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For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house
appointed for all living.
Ver. 23. _For I know that thou wilt bring me to death_] Such hard
thoughts had Job of God, and such heavy...
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_Thou liftest me up to the wind_ Thou exposest me to all sorts of
storms and calamities, so that I am like chaff or stubble lifted up to
the wind, and violently tossed hither and thither in the air. _...
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For I know that Thou wilt bring me to death, or, "back from the dust
of death," AND TO THE HOUSE APPOINTED FOR ALL LIVING, where the living
assemble, a confident cry in the midst of hopelessness, look...
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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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"Job sensed that God would eventually end his life in death. 'The
house of the meeting for all living' to which God would bring him
means death, the appointed place where all the living eventually mee...
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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 30:23 know H3045 (H8804) bring H7725 (H8686) death H4194 house
H1004 appointed H4150 living H2416
the
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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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_To the house appointed for all living._
THE HOUSE APPOINTED FOR ALL LIVING
What were the definite grounds on which Job formed this conclusion?
1. What he saw around him on every side.
2. Job’s bo...
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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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2 Samuel 14:14; Ecclesiastes 12:5; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Ecclesiastes 9:5;...
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House appointed — The grave is a narrow, dark, cold house, but there
we shall rest and be safe. It is our home, for it is our mother's lap,
and in it we are gathered to our fathers. It is an house app...