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Verse Job 30:4. _WHO CUT UP MALLOWS BY THE BUSHES_] מלוח
_malluach_, which we translate _mallows_, comes from מלח _melach,
salt_; some herb or shrub of a salt nature, sea-purslane, or the
salsaria, s...
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WHO CUT UP MALLOWS - For the purpose of eating. Mallows are common
medicinal plants, famous for their emollient or softening properties,
and the size and brilliancy of their flowers. It is not probabl...
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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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_by the bushes_ i. e. _beside_or among the bushes. The "mallows" or
"salt-wort" which they pluck as food is found among the bushes, which
cover it from the heat and drought, and under the shadow of wh...
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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....
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WHO CUT UP MALLOWS, &C.— Or, _Sea-purslane._ The word rendered
_juniper_ signifies the _broom,_ or _birch-tree._ See 1 Kings 19:4.
These were, without doubt, the meanest kinds of foods and made use of...
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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...
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_WHO CUT UP MALLOWS BY THE BUSHES, AND JUNIPER ROOTS FOR THEIR MEAT._
Mallows - rather, salt wort, which grows in deserts, and is eaten as a
salad by the poor, having a salt taste (Maurer).
BY THE...
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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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RENDER, 'They pluck salt-wort' (a plant sometimes eaten by the
abjectly poor) 'among the bushes, and the roots of the white broom to
warm them.' This broom is a distinctive shrub of the southern deser...
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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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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...
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הַ קֹּטְפִ֣ים מַלּ֣וּחַ עֲלֵי
־שִׂ֑יחַ וְ שֹׁ
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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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Grass. "There (in Crete, where no noxious animal, no serpent lives)
the herb alimos, being chewed, expels hunger for the day;" admorsa
diurnam famem prohibet. (Solin. 17.) --- The Hebrew malliuch, is...
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(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...
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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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WHO CUT UP MALLOWS BY THE BUSHES,.... Which with the Troglodytes were
of a vast size r; or rather "upon the bush" s or "tree"; and therefore
cannot mean what we call mallows, which are herbs on the gr...
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Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.
Ver. 4. _Who cut up mallows by the bushes_] Pitiful poor fare they
are glad of; not so good as that of the Baptist, locusts and w...
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_Who cut up mallows_ Or, _bitter herbs_, as the word seems to import,
which shows their extreme necessity; _by the bushes_ Or, _by the
shrubs_, nigh unto which they grew. Or, _with the bark of trees_,...
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JOB COMPLAINS OF THE CONTEMPT HE RECEIVES FROM MEN....
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who cut up mallows, the saltwort of the desert, BY THE BUSHES, where
it led a precarious existence in the shadow of larger bushes, AND
JUNIPER ROOTS FOR THEIR MEAT, a kind of broom-root or furze being...
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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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The word "mallow" refers to. plant with sour-tasting leaves that grew
in salty marshes and the broom-shrub is. plant that only the desperate
would seek to eat for food, especially the roots. "Thin, hu...
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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...
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MALLOWS; or, _purslain_, or _salt_ or _bitter herbs_, as the word
seems to import, which shows their extreme necessity. BY THE BUSHES;
or, by the shrubs, nigh unto which they grew; or, _with the barks...
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Job 30:4 pluck H6998 (H8801) mallow H4408 bushes H7880 tree H7574
roots H8328 food H3899
for their meat -...
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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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_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...
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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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:4 The plants mentioned here represent
desperation.
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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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Who cut — Bitter herbs, which shews their extreme necessity. Juniper
— Possibly the word may signify some other plant, for the Hebrews
themselves are at a loss for the signification of the names of pl...