Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Job 30:6
As unworthy of human society, and for their beggary and dishonesty suspected and avoided of all men.
As unworthy of human society, and for their beggary and dishonesty suspected and avoided of all men.
Verse Job 30:6. _TO DWELL IN THE CLIFFS OF THE VALLEYS_] They were obliged to take shelter in the most dangerous, out-of-the-way, and unfrequented places. This is the meaning....
TO DWELL IN THE CLIFFS OF THE VALLEYS - The word here rendered “cliffs” (ערוץ _‛__ârûts_) denotes rather “horror,” or something “horrid,” and the sense here is, that they dwelt in “the horrer of val...
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...
CLIFFS.. ravines; or, most dreadful ravines....
Description of this wretched class of outcasts. The _tenses_should all be put in the present. The race of people referred to appears to be the same as that in ch. 24....
Such creatures when they approach civilized dwellings are driven forth and pursued with cries as men do a thief. They are driven forth from among men, They cry after them as after a thief, And they...
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...
_TO DWELL IN THE CLIFFS OF THE VALLEYS, IN CAVES OF THE EARTH, AND IN THE ROCKS._ _ TO DWELL IN THE CLIFFS OF THE VALLEYS, IN CAVES OF THE EARTH, AND IN THE ROCKS._ They are forced TO DWELL IN THE CLI...
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...
בַּ עֲר֣וּץ נְחָלִ֣ים לִ שְׁכֹּ֑ן חֹרֵ֖י עָפָ
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...
_Gravel of the torrents. (Menochius) --- Hebrew, "in the rocks," living like the Troglodites. (Haydock)_...
(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...
TO DWELL IN THE CLIFFS OF THE VALLEYS,.... Or "brooks" l, in such hollow places as were made by floods and streams of waters: [IN] CAVES OF THE EARTH, AND [IN] THE ROCKS; where they betook themselves...
To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks. Ver. 6. _To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys_] Like wild beasts and serpents; which these idle persons will rathe...
_They were driven forth from among men_ As unworthy of human society; and for their beggary and dishonesty, suspected and avoided of all men; _they cried after them as after a thief_ Giving one anothe...
to dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks, those were the dwelling places of this low class of people, whose youngsters now dared to insult Job as he sat there in...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE CONTEMPT HE RECEIVES FROM MEN....
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...
CAVES: _ Heb._ holes...
"Since they are not welcome in any community, they live in the dreadful ravines among the rocks. Job bitterly relates how even these people taunt him, now that he is also an outcast living on. dunghil...
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...
Job 30:6 live H7931 (H8800) clefts H6178 valleys H5158 caves H2356 earth H6083 rocks H3710 dwell -...
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...
1 Samuel 22:1; 1 Samuel 22:2; Isaiah 2:19; Judges 6:2; Revelation 6:15