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WHEN I LOOKED FOR GOOD - When I supposed that respect would be shown
me; or when I looked forward to an honored old age. I expected to be
made happy and prosperous through life, as the result of my
up...
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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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DARKNESS. Hebrew. _ophel_. See note on Job 3:6....
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WHEN I LOOKED FOR GOOD, &C.— See the note on chap. Job 3:25....
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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...
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_WHEN I LOOKED FOR GOOD, THEN EVIL CAME UNTO ME: AND WHEN I WAITED FOR
LIGHT, THERE CAME DARKNESS._
I may be allowed to crave help, seeing that "when I looked for good
(on account of my piety and cha...
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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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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
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CHAPTER 30
JOB MAKES A LIST OF HIS...
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Job did not deserve these terrible troubles. Good people do not always
have good lives....
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WHEN I LOOKED FOR GOOD. — Before, in Job 3:25, he had spoken as one
who did not wish to be the _fool_ of prosperity, and so overtaken
unawares by calamity, and who therefore looked at things on the da...
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כִּ֤י טֹ֣וב קִ֭וִּיתִי וַ יָּ֣בֹא
רָ֑ע וַֽ
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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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When I looked for good, then (r) evil came [unto me]: and when I
waited for light, there came darkness.
(r) Instead of comforting they mocked me....
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(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...
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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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WHEN I LOOKED FOR GOOD,.... As he thought he might reasonably expect
it, since he had shown such a sympathizing spirit to persons in
trouble, and such pity and mercy to the poor: in the time of his
pr...
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When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited
for light, there came darkness.
Ver. 26. _When I looked for good_] According to that general rule,
and the common course of God's p...
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_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...
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When I looked for good, then evil came unto me, this being another
reason why his craving for help should go unchallenged; AND WHEN I
WAITED FOR LIGHT, THERE CAME DARKNESS, he had nothing but misfortu...
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THE UNSPEAKABLE MISERY AND DISAPPOINTMENT WITH WHICH JOB BATTLED...
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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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In this verse the terms "good" and "light" may stand for the help and
compassion that Job was expecting from his friends but did not
receive....
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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...
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Instead of the return of the like pity to me, which I might justly
challenge and expect whensoever I should stand in need of it, I meet
with a sad disappointment, and my pity is recompensed with other...
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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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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...
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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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Isaiah 50:10; Jeremiah 14:19; Jeremiah 15:18; Jeremiah 8:15; Job 18:
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Upon me — Yet trouble came upon myself, when I expected it not....