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Verse Job 30:10. _THEY ABHOR ME_] What a state must civil society be
in when such indignities were permitted to be offered to the aged and
afflicted!...
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THEY ABHOR ME - Hebrew, They regard me as abominable.
THEY FLEE FAR FROM ME - Even such an impious and low born race now
will have nothing to do with me. They would consider it no honor to be
associa...
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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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FACE. presence,...
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Job's treatment now at the hands of these outcasts.
With "spit in my face" comp. ch. Job 17:6. In ch. 24. Job referred to
this miserable race With compassion; they had often no doubt excited
his pity...
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THEY ABHOR ME, &C.— _They abominate me: they hold me in the utmost
abhorrence, and fear not to spit in my face._ Houb. Heath reads, _They
hold me in abhorrence; they go out at a distance from me; nay,...
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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...
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_THEY ABHOR ME, THEY FLEE FAR FROM ME, AND SPARE NOT TO SPIT IN MY
FACE._
In my face - rather, refrain not to spit (in deliberate contempt)
before my face. To spit at all in presence of another is th...
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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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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...
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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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תִּֽ֭עֲבוּנִי רָ֣חֲקוּ מֶ֑נִּי וּ֝ מִ
פָּנַ֗י...
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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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_Face. This most people explain literally; while some, (Calmet) as Job
was herein a figure of Christ, (Menochius; Matthew xxvi.; Worthington)
think that the expression denotes the utmost contempt; (St...
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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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THEY ABHOR ME,.... As it is no wonder they should, since his inward
and most intimate friends did, Job 19:19; they abhorred him, not for
any evil in him; Job was ready enough to abhor that himself, an...
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They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my
face.
Ver. 10. _They abhor me, they flee far from me_] As if I were a leper
or a bugbear, or that my breath were infectious; like tha...
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_They were children of fools_, &c. They were children of base, obscure
parents; viler than the earth upon which they trod. Houbigant
translates the verse: _Foolish men and inglorious, they were driven...
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They abhor me, they flee far from me, shunning him with a most abject
abhorrence, AND SPARE NOT TO SPIT IN MY FACE, as an expression of
their unbounded contempt. So greatly had Job been degraded by Go...
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JOB COMPLAINS OF THE CONTEMPT HE RECEIVES FROM MEN....
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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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Even the low-life do not want to associate with Job, and they even
spit upon him....
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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...
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THEY FLEE FAR FROM ME, in contempt of my person, and loathing of my
sores. SPARE NOT TO SPIT IN MY FACE; not literally, for they kept far
from him, as he now said; but figuratively, i.e. they use all...
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Job 30:10 abhor H8581 (H8765) far H7368 (H8804) hesitate H2820 (H8804)
spit H7536 face H6440
abhor me -...
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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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_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...
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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)....
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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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Deuteronomy 25:9; Isaiah 50:6; Job 19:13; Job 19:14; Job 19:19;...
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Spit — Not literally, for they kept far from him, but figuratively,
they use all manner of reproachful expressions, even to my face.
Herein, also we see a type of Christ, who was thus made a reproach...