Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 30:4
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 plants.
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 plants.
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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....
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
הַ קֹּטְפִ֣ים מַלּ֣וּחַ עֲלֵי ־שִׂ֑יחַ וְ שֹׁ
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
_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_,...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE CONTEMPT HE RECEIVES FROM MEN....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Job 30:4 pluck H6998 (H8801) mallow H4408 bushes H7880 tree H7574 roots H8328 food H3899 for their meat -...
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:4 The plants mentioned here represent desperation. ⇐ ⇔...
_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...
2 Kings 4:38; 2 Kings 4:39; Amos 7:14; Luke 15:16...