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AND NOW MY SOUL IS POURED OUT UPON ME - So in Psalms 42:4, “I pour
out my soul in me.” We say that one is dissolved in grief. The
language is derived from the fact that the soul in grief seems to lose...
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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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SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
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he people volunteered themselves, bless ye the Lord,"
i.e. give thanks for the zeal with which the people devoted themselves
to the sacred war of independence. Cp. Deuteronomy 32:42, where "from
the...
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AND NOW MY SOUL IS POURED OUT UPON ME— _For now my soul melteth
within me._ Houb. See Psalms 42:4....
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b. His unhappy misery (Job 30:16-23)
TEXT 30:16-23
16 AND NOW MY SOUL IS POURED OAT WITHIN ME;
Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me,
And t...
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_AND NOW MY SOUL IS POURED OUT UPON ME; THE DAYS OF AFFLICTION HAVE
TAKEN HOLD UPON ME._
Job's outward calamities affect his mind.
POURED OUT - in irrepressible complaints (Psalms 42:4; Joshua 7:5)...
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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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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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Job was suffering pain because of his illness. The pain reminded him
of clothing that someone cannot remove. So the pain affected Job’s
whole body. The pain also reminded Job of a collar. It felt as i...
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וְ עַתָּ֗ה עָ֭לַי תִּשְׁתַּפֵּ֣ךְ
נַפְשִׁ֑י יֹ֭אחֲז֣וּנִי...
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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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And now my soul is (l) poured out upon me; the days of affliction have
taken hold upon me.
(l) My life fails me, and I am as half dead....
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_Fadeth. Hebrew, "is poured out," (Haydock) ready to take its flight,
Psalm xli. 5._...
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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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AND NOW MY SOUL IS POURED OUT UPON ME,.... Either in prayer to God for
help and deliverance; or rather he was dissolved as it were in floods
of tears, because of his distress and anguish; or his spiri...
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And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have
taken hold upon me.
Ver. 16. _And now my soul is poured out upon me_] Now that I am under
these inward terrors, I am become strength...
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_My soul is poured out upon me_ Or within me, as the particle עלי,
_gnali_, is elsewhere used. All the strength and powers of my soul are
melted, faint, and die away. _My bones are pierced_ Or rather,...
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THE UNSPEAKABLE MISERY AND DISAPPOINTMENT WITH WHICH JOB BATTLED...
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And now my soul is poured out upon me, dissolved in suffering and
anguish; THE DAYS OF AFFLICTION HAVE TAKEN HOLD UPON ME, he was in the
strong clutches of suffering and found himself unable to shake...
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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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"His soul can absorb no more emotional strain. His suffering has
drained him of all zest for life" _(Strauss p. 298)._ Compare with
Psalms 22:14; Job 42:4....
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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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MY SOUL IS POURED OUT; all the strength and powers of my soul are
melted, and fainting, and dying away, through my continued and
insupportable sorrows and calamities. UPON ME; or, _within me_, as
this...
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Job 30:16 soul H5315 out H8210 (H8691) days H3117 affliction H6040
hold H270 (H8799)
my soul -...
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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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_The days of affliction have taken hold upon me._
PHYSICAL PAIN
In these verses the patriarch sketches his great corporeal sufferings,
his physical anguish. Probably man’s capability of bodily suffe...
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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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Isaiah 53:12; Psalms 22:14; Psalms 40:12; Psalms 42:4...