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Job 30:24-31

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. Job 30:28).

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See also Job 30:24-31 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GRAVE. Hebrew. _bi' i_,. mound or tumulus. But others point it _be'i_. a prayer. HIS DESTRUCTION. their calamity....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    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?'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job did not deserve these terrible troubles. Good people do not always have good lives....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַ֣ךְ לֹא ־בְ֭ עִי יִשְׁלַח ־יָ֑ד אִם

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    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!...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE UNSPEAKABLE MISERY AND DISAPPOINTMENT WITH WHICH JOB BATTLED...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    GRAVE: _ Heb._ heap...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    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....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 30:24 out H7971 (H8799) hand H3027 ruins H1164 out H7769 destroys H6365 grave - Heb. heap they cry -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Judges 5:31; Matthew 27:39; Psalms 35:25...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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