"Jackals live in the desert, and the only place that Job is welcome is there. The jackals are also known for their plaintive cry, with which he also identifies. The ostrich, too, is known for its hissing, cackling, and doleful moaning. The mournful howl of these animals still disturbs the desert nights" (Strauss p. 300).
Verse Job 30:29. _I AM A BROTHER TO DRAGONS_] By my mournful and continual cry I resemble תנים _tannim_, the _jackals_ or _hyenas_. _AND A COMPANION TO OWLS._] בנות יענה _benoth yaanah_, to the _dau...
I AM A BROTHER TO DRAGONS - That is, my loud complaints and cries resemble the doleful screams of wild animals, or of the most frightful monsters. The word “brother” is often used in this sense, to de...
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...
I AM A BROTHER TO DRAGONS, &C.— _I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches._ See Bochart Hieroz. lib. 2: cap. 14. The _jackal_ and the _female ostrich_ are both remarkable for their mour...
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...
_I AM A BROTHER TO DRAGONS, AND A COMPANION TO OWLS._ Dragons ... owls - rather, jackals, ostriches, both of which utter dismal screams (Micah 1:8); in which respect, as also in their living amidst s...
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...
DRAGONS] RV 'jackals.' OWLS] lit. 'daughters of screeching.' These are animals associated with desolate places: cp. Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 13:22. 3OA. RV 'My skin is black, _and falleth_ from.me.'...
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...
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...
DRAGONS and OWLS are, according to some moderns, _jackals_ and _ostriches. _...
אָ֭ח הָיִ֣יתִי לְ תַנִּ֑ים וְ֝ רֵ֗עַ לִ
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...
I am a brother to (u) dragons, and a companion to owls. (u) I am like the wild beasts that desire solitary places....
Brother of dragons, &c. Imitating these creatures in their lamentable noise. (Challoner) -- I was like those beasts which retire in order to lament. (Worthington) --- The dragons his dreadfully, when...
(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...
I AM A BROTHER TO DRAGONS, AND A COMPANION TO OWLS. Or ostriches, as the Targum, Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions; either he was obliged to dwell with such persons as were compar...
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. Ver. 29. _I am a brother to dragons, &c._] _i.e._ I utter a very lamentable voice, or rather noise, like dragons, which sucking the elephant's bloo...
_I am a brother_ By imitation of their cries; _to dragons_ Which howl and wail mournfully in the deserts, (Micah 1:8,) either through hunger and thirst, or when they fight with, and are beaten by, the...
I am a brother to dragons, to the jackals of the desert in appearance, AND A COMPANION TO OWLS, to the ostriches of the wilderness....
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...
OWLS: Or, ostriches...
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...
A BROTHER, to wit, by imitation of their cries: persons of like qualities are oft called brethren, as GENESIS 49:5 PROVERBS 18:9. TO DRAGONS; which howl and wail mournfully in the deserts, MICAH 1:8,...
Job 30:29 brother H251 jackals H8577 companion H7453 ostriches H1323 H3284 a brother - Job 17:14;...
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...
Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 13:22; Isaiah 38:14; Job 17:14; Malachi 1:3;...
A brother — By imitation of their cries: persons of like qualities are often called brethren. Dragon — Which howl and wail mournfully in the deserts....