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. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:4 The plants mentioned here represent desperation. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:8 The Hebrew word translated SENSELESS implies that these men are morally responsible for their circumstances (compare “foolish,” Job 2:10; see the description of the foolish in Proverbs 1:7, Proverbs 1:29). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ v [ Continue Reading ]
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:9 Job describes his three friends as casting off any RESTRAINT, as if they were taking advantage of an easy military conquest (THROUGH A WIDE BREACH). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:11 LOOSED MY CORD. God has taken away Job’s security (compare Job 29:4). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:16 MY SOUL IS POURED OUT. A description of grief. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
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 EVIL where he hoped for GOOD (v. Job 30:26), and isolation and mourning (vv. Job 30:27, Job 30:29) when he has called for HELP (v.... [ Continue Reading ]