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Verse Job 30:9. _NOW AM I THEIR SONG_] I am the subject of their
mirth, and serve as a proverb or by-word. They use me with every
species of indignity....
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AND NOW AM I THEIR SONG - See Job 17:6; compare Psalms 69:12, “I was
the song of the drunkards;” Lamentations 3:14, “I was a derision
to all my people, and their song all the day.” The sense is, that...
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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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Job's treatment now at the hands of these outcasts.
With "spit in my face" comp. ch. Job 17:6. In ch. 24. Job referred to
this miserable race With compassion; they had often no doubt excited
his pity...
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2. Sorrowful description of his present sad estate (Job 30:1-31)
a. The contempt he has from men of lowest class (Job 30:1-15)
TEXT 30:1-15
1 BUT NOW THEY THAT ARE YOUNGER THAN I HAVE ME IN DERISIO...
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_AND NOW AM I THEIR SONG, YEA, I AM THEIR BYWORD._ (Job 17:6.)
Strikingly similar to the derision Jesus Christ underwent
(Lamentations 3:14; Psalms 69:12). Here Job returns to the sentiment
in...
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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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Formerly the most important people would gather to listen to Job. And
they respected Job greatly.
But now, the worst youths would gather to see Job. They would insult
Job. And they would laugh at him...
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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...
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AND NOW AM I THEIR SONG. — See the references in the margin, which
show that it is quite appropriate to give to the complaints of Job a
Messianic interpretation....
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וְ֭ עַתָּה נְגִינָתָ֣ם הָיִ֑יתִי וָ
אֱהִ֖י לָ
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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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And now am I their (e) song, yea, I am their byword.
(e) They make songs of me, and mock my misery....
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_Bye-word. "Proverb." (Haydock) --- They speak of me with contempt,
chap. xvii. 6._...
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(1) В¶ But now they that are younger than I have me in derision,
whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my
flock. (2) Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit m...
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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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AND NOW AM I THEIR SONG,.... The subject of their song, of whom they
sung ballads about the streets, in public places, and at their
festivals and merriments, as Christ the antitype of Job was the song...
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_And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword._
Ver. 9. _And now am I their song_] They compose comedies out of my
tragedies, and make themselves merry in my misery; they not only make
ballads and...
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_They were children of fools_, &c. They were children of base, obscure
parents; viler than the earth upon which they trod. Houbigant
translates the verse: _Foolish men and inglorious, they were driven...
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JOB COMPLAINS OF THE CONTEMPT HE RECEIVES FROM MEN....
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And now am I their song, their shout of mockery and derision, YEA, I
AM THEIR BYWORD, they refer to Job only in a malicious, contemptuous
manner....
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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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"AND NOW. HAVE BECOME THEIR TAUNT,. HAVE EVEN BECOME. BYWORD TO THEM":
"This scum of society-a brood without even names-considered Job scum"
_(Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 752)._...
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1-14 Job contrasts his present condition with his former honour and
authority. What little cause have men to be ambitious or proud of that
which may be so easily lost, and what little confidence is to...
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The matter of their song and derision. They now rejoice in my
calamities, because formerly I used my authority to punish such
vagrants and miscreants....
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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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_But now they that are younger than I have me in derision._
JOB’S SOCIAL DISABILITIES
Man’s happiness as a social being is greatly dependent upon the kind
feeling and respect which is shown to him b...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:9 Job describes his three friends as casting off
any RESTRAINT, as if they were taking advantage of an easy military
conquest (THROUGH A WIDE BREACH)....
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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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Job 17:6; Lamentations 3:14; Lamentations 3:63; Psalms 35:15;...