Mark Dunagan Commentaries
Job 30:23
"Job sensed that God would eventually end his life in death. 'The house of the meeting for all living' to which God would bring him means death, the appointed place where all the living eventually meet" (p. 132).
"Job sensed that God would eventually end his life in death. 'The house of the meeting for all living' to which God would bring him means death, the appointed place where all the living eventually meet" (p. 132).
Verse Job 30:23. _THOU WILT BRING ME_ TO _DEATH_] This must be the issue of my present affliction: to God alone it is possible that I should survive it. To _THE HOUSE APPOINTED FOR ALL LIVING. _] Or...
FOR I KNOW THAT THOU WILT BRING ME TO DEATH - This is the language of despair. Occasionally Job seems to have had an assurance that his calamities would pass by, and that God would show himself to be...
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...
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...
DISCOURSE: 480 THE CERTAINTY OF DEATH Job 30:23. _I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living_. WE cannot certainly know the ultimate intentions of Providence f...
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...
_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)...
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...
HOUSE APPOINTED] RM 'house of meeting.' Job is convinced that his sufferings can only end in death....
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...
Job accused God. God seemed so powerful. And Job was very weak. Job thought that God was using his great power to kill Job. It seems strange to remember Job 2:3. The truth is that God was proud of Jo...
כִּֽי ־יָ֭דַעְתִּי מָ֣וֶת תְּשִׁיבֵ֑נִי וּ בֵ֖ית...
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...
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...
_Liveth. Death is a relief to a just man in tribulation. (Worthington)_...
(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...
_THE HOUSE APPOINTED FOR ALL LIVING_ ‘For I know that Thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.’ Job 30:23 I. THE REFLECTIONS SUGGESTED.—(_a_) Death and the grave are...
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...
FOR I KNOW [THAT] THOU WILT BRING ME [TO] DEATH,.... Quickly and by the present affliction upon him; he was assured, as he thought, that this was the view and design of God in this providence, under w...
For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living. Ver. 23. _For I know that thou wilt bring me to death_] Such hard thoughts had Job of God, and such heavy...
_Thou liftest me up to the wind_ Thou exposest me to all sorts of storms and calamities, so that I am like chaff or stubble lifted up to the wind, and violently tossed hither and thither in the air. _...
For I know that Thou wilt bring me to death, or, "back from the dust of death," AND TO THE HOUSE APPOINTED FOR ALL LIVING, where the living assemble, a confident cry in the midst of hopelessness, look...
THE UNSPEAKABLE MISERY AND DISAPPOINTMENT WITH WHICH JOB BATTLED...
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...
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...
I see nothing will satisfy thee but my death, which thou art bringing upon me in a lingering and dismal manner. TO THE HOUSE APPOINTED FOR ALL LIVING; to the grave, to which all living men are coming...
Job 30:23 know H3045 (H8804) bring H7725 (H8686) death H4194 house H1004 appointed H4150 living H2416 the
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...
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...
_To the house appointed for all living._ THE HOUSE APPOINTED FOR ALL LIVING What were the definite grounds on which Job formed this conclusion? 1. What he saw around him on every side. 2. Job’s bo...
_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...
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...
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...
2 Samuel 14:14; Ecclesiastes 12:5; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Ecclesiastes 9:5;...
House appointed — The grave is a narrow, dark, cold house, but there we shall rest and be safe. It is our home, for it is our mother's lap, and in it we are gathered to our fathers. It is an house app...