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Verse Job 30:24. _HE WILL NOT STRETCH OUT_ HIS _HAND TO THE GRAVE_]
After all that has been said relative to the just _translation_ and
true _meaning_ of this verse, is it not evident that it is in t...
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HOWBEIT HE WILL NOT STRETCH OUT HIS HAND TO THE GRAVE - Margin, heap.
In our common version this verse conveys no very clear idea, and it is
quite evident that our translators despaired of giving it a...
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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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GRAVE. Hebrew. _bi' i_,. mound or tumulus. But others point it _be'i_.
a prayer.
HIS DESTRUCTION. their calamity....
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HOWBEIT, HE WILL NOT STRETCH OUT, &C.— Houbigant renders this verse,
_Howbeit death shall not extend his hand to my sepulchre; but if to my
dissolution, even that shall be for my salvation._ See his n...
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c. The disappointment of all his hopes (Job 30:24-31)
TEXT 30:24-31
24 HOWBEIT DOTH NOT ONE STRETCH OUT THE HAND IN HIS FALL:
Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
25 Did not I weep for him t...
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_HOWBEIT HE WILL NOT STRETCH OUT HIS HAND TO THE GRAVE, THOUGH THEY
CRY IN HIS DESTRUCTION._
Expressing Job's faith as to the state after death. 'Though one must
go to the grave, yet He will no more a...
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30:24 he (d-6) i.e. God. destroyeth. (e-16) Or 'But in overthrow doth
not one stretch out his hand? in destruction doth he not raise a cry?'...
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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, 'Doth not a sinking man stretch out his hand, and cry out in
his calamity?'
27A. Figurative of his agitated condition.
27B. PREVENTED ME] RV 'are come upon me.'
28A. RM 'I go blackened, but...
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THOUGH THEY CRY IN HIS DESTRUCTION. — This is a very obscure verse.
Some render it, “Surely against a ruinous heap he will not put forth
his hand; though it be in his destruction _one may utter_ a cry...
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אַ֣ךְ לֹא ־בְ֭ עִי יִשְׁלַח ־יָ֑ד אִם
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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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Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand (q) to the grave, though
they cry in his destruction.
(q) No one can deliver me from there, though they lament my death....
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Consumption. Thou dealest mercifully with other people: but all the
effects of thy anger fall upon me, even here. Septuagint, "O that I
might lay hands on myself, or desire another to do this for 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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HOWBEIT HE WILL NOT STRETCH OUT [HIS] HAND TO THE GRAVE,.... Or,
"verily" h, truly he will not, c. I am well assured he never will,
meaning either he never would stretch out his hand to shut up the
gr...
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Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they
cry in his destruction.
Ver. 24. _Howbeit he will outstretch not his hand to the grave_] He
will not dig up the dead, as the Papis...
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Job 30:24. "Howbeit He will not stretch out His hand to the grave"
_i.e., _ to rescue men from death. Every man must die and be retained
in the grave, - "the redemption of the life is precious, and it...
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_He will not stretch out his hand to the grave_ This verse is judged
by commentators to be very obscure. The sense of it probably is,
Notwithstanding I earnestly wished for the grave as a place of res...
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Howbeit, he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they
cry in his destruction, literally, "But is it not in falling one
stretches out his hand, in destruction raises a call for help?" Suc...
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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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GRAVE:
_ Heb._ heap...
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Here Job bemoans the fact that in the midst of all this suffering, he
had been forsaken by his friends as well. Job had cried out for help,
only to be accused of some secret sin and being. hypocrite....
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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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There is great variety and difficulty in the sense and connexion of
these words. They may be joined either,
1. With the following verse, as describing Job's compassion to others
in affliction, which b...
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Job 30:24 out H7971 (H8799) hand H3027 ruins H1164 out H7769 destroys
H6365
grave - Heb. heap
they 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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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:24 Job pictures himself as one of those whose
cries for HELP he used to answer (vv. Job 30:24). In his own distress
he has only found...
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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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Judges 5:31; Matthew 27:39; Psalms 35:25...
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To the grave — The hand of God's wrath will not follow me beyond
death; I shall then be safe and easy: Tho' men cry in his destruction:
tho' most men cry and are affrighted, while they are dying, whil...