Mark Dunagan Commentaries
Job 30:27
Inwardly, Job was in emotional turmoil, literally he was "boiling" on the inside. He was unable to relax or come to terms with any of this, and only affliction confronted him day after day.
Inwardly, Job was in emotional turmoil, literally he was "boiling" on the inside. He was unable to relax or come to terms with any of this, and only affliction confronted him day after day.
Verse Job 30:27. _MY BOWELS BOILED_] This alludes to the strong commotion in the bowels which every humane person feels at the sight of one in misery....
MY BOWELS BOILED - Or rather, My bowels boil - for he refers to his present circumstances, and not to the past. It is clear that by this phrase he designs to describe deep affliction. The bowels, in t...
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...
PREVENTED. came on....
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...
_MY BOWELS BOILED, AND RESTED NOT: THE DAYS OF AFFLICTION PREVENTED ME._ Bowels - regarded as the seat of deep feeling (Isaiah 16:11). BOILED - violently heated and agitated. PREVENTED - old Engl...
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...
In verses 28 and 30, Job spoke about the terrible illness that affected his skin. Job had painful spots over his whole body (Job 2:7). In these verses, Job explained that his skin had become dark. And...
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...
MY BOWELS BOILED. — The sense is better expressed by the present, “My bowels boil, and rest not. Days of affliction have overtaken me unawares.” (See last verse.)...
מֵעַ֖י רֻתְּח֥וּ וְ לֹא ־דָ֗מּוּ קִדְּמֻ֥נִי...
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...
(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...
MY BOWELS BOILED, AND RESTED NOT,.... All contained within him, his heart, lungs, and liver, in a literal sense, through a violent fever burning within him; or figuratively, being under great distress...
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. Ver. 27. _My bowels boiled, and rested not_] Being tossed and tumbled with continual boiling and bubbling, rumbling and making a...
_My bowels boiled_ Namely, with the violence of my disorder; _and rested not_ Hebrew, ולא דמו, _velo damu_, and were not silent. _The days of affliction prevented me_ Came upon me suddenly and unexpec...
THE UNSPEAKABLE MISERY AND DISAPPOINTMENT WITH WHICH JOB BATTLED...
My bowels boiled and rested not, on account of the intense heat of the fever which was devouring him and the torments of his anxiety; THE DAYS OF AFFLICTION PREVENTED ME, flinging themselves in his wa...
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...
My inward parts boiled without ceasing. The bowels are the seat of passion and of compassion; and therefore this may be understood, either, 1. Of his compassionate and deep sense of others miseries; w...
Job 30:27 heart H4578 turmoil H7570 (H8795) rest H1826 (H8804) Days H3117 affliction H6040 confront H6923 ...
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...
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...
Jeremiah 31:20; Jeremiah 4:19; Lamentations 1:20; Lamentations 2:11;...
Affliction — Came upon me suddenly, and unexpectedly, when I promised myself peace and prosperity....