When Job had been prosperous he had been sympathetic to the less fortunate, he had been very compassionate and had always extended sympathy to any in distress. Yet now that Job's life is hard, no one grieves for him. Where is the helping hand? See Romans 12:15; 1 Peter 3:8.
Verse Job 30:25. _DID NOT I WEEP FOR HIM THAT WAS IN TROUBLE?_] Mr. _Good_ translates much nearer the sense of the original, לקשה יום _liksheh_ _yom_. "Should I not then weep for the _ruthless day_?...
DID NOT I WEEP ... - Job here appeals to his former life, and says that it had been a characteristic of his life to manifest compassion to the afflicted and the poor. His object in doing this is, evid...
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...
DID NOT I.! Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. POOR. helpless. Hebrew. _'ebyon_. See note on Proverbs 6:11,...
DISCOURSE: 481 JOB’S COMPASSION FOR THE POOR Job 30:25. _Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?_ IN the midst of any heavy calamities, a recollection that w...
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...
_DID NOT I WEEP FOR HIM THAT WAS IN TROUBLE? WAS NOT MY SOUL GRIEVED FOR THE POOR?_ May I not be allowed to complain of my calamity, and beg relief, seeing that I myself sympathized with those "in tr...
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...
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 did not deserve these terrible troubles. Good people do not always have good lives....
DID NOT I WEEP FOR HIM? — Job declares that he has not withheld that sympathy with sorrow and suffering for which he himself has asked in vain....
אִם ־לֹ֣א בָ֭כִיתִי לִ קְשֵׁה ־יֹ֑ום עָֽגְמָ֥
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...
CHAPTER XXX....
(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 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...
DID NOT I WEEP FOR HIM THAT WAS IN TROUBLE?.... In outward trouble, whether personal in his own body, or in his family, or in his worldly affairs, or from wicked men, the men of the world; or in inwar...
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor? Ver. 25. _Did I not weep for him that was in trouble?_] _Rursum, per pathos, excandescit_ (Mercer). Here Job wonder...
_Did not I weep for him that was in trouble_ Have I now judgment without mercy, because I afforded no mercy or pity to others in misery? No; my conscience acquits me from this inhumanity: I did mourn...
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor? He who showed true sympathy with the poor and miserable in their afflictions would surely not be denied this show of t...
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...
FOR HIM THAT WAS IN TROUBLE?: _ Heb._ for him that was hard of day...
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...
Whence is it that neither God nor man show any compassion to me, but both conspire to afflict me, and increase my torments? Doth God now mete out to me the same measure which I meted out to others? Ha...
Job 30:25 wept H1058 (H8804) him H3117 trouble H7186 soul H5315 grieved H5701 (H8804) poor H34 Did not I -...
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...
_Did I not weep for him that was in trouble._ TEARS FOR THE OPPRESSED By noticing the care with which Job throws back the insinuation of Eliphaz, how much he valued the character of charity, and how...
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...
_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 Corinthians 9:9; Daniel 4:27; Isaiah 58:7; Isaiah 58:8; Jeremiah 1
Did not I — Have I now judgment without mercy, because I afforded no mercy to others in misery? No; my conscience acquits me from this inhumanity: I did mourn over others in their miseries....