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Verse Job 30:14. _THEY CAME_ UPON ME _AS A WIDE BREAKING IN_] They
_storm_ me on every side.
_IN THE DESOLATION THEY ROLLED THEMSELVES_] When they had made the
_breach_, they _rolled in_ upon me as...
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THEY CAME UPON ME AS A WIDE BREAKING-IN OF WATERS - The Hebrew here is
simply, “Like a wide breach they came,” and the reference may be,
not to an inundation, as our translators supposed, but to an ir...
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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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Further description of the outrageous insults of these base outcasts....
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The verse reads,
They come in as through a wide breach,
Amidst the crash they roll themselves upon me.
The figure is that of a stormed fastness. The "crash" is that of the
falling walls....
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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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_THEY CAME UPON ME AS A WIDE BREAKING IN OF WATERS: IN THE DESOLATION
THEY ROLLED THEMSELVES UPON ME._
Waters - (so 2 Samuel 5:20). But it is better to retain the image of
Job 30:12. "They came (upon...
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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.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 30
JOB MAKES A LIST OF HIS...
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Job watched the youths as they talked. And Job thought that they were
making plans to attack him. Job felt too ill to avoid them.
Of course, a city cannot move when its enemies attack. So Job thought...
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AS A WIDE BREAKING IN OF WATERS. — Or, _as through a wide breach
they come._ “In the midst of the crash they roll themselves upon
me;” or, “instead of A tempest” (_I.E.,_ like a tempest) “they
roll th...
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כְּ פֶ֣רֶץ רָחָ֣ב יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ תַּ֥חַת
שֹׁ֝אָ֗ה...
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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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They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the (k)
desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].
(k) By my calamity they took an opportunity against me....
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_Down, ( devoluti sunt.) They have proceeded to aggravate my
misfortunes. (Haydock) --- "They came upon me as a wide breaking in of
waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. ["]
(Prote...
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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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THEY CAME [UPON ME] AS A WIDE BREAKING IN [OF WATERS],.... As when a
wide breach is made in the banks of a river, or of the sea, the waters
rush through in great abundance, with great rapidity and swi...
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They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the
desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].
Ver. 14. _They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters_] _Quasi
irruptione lata invadun...
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_They came as a wide breaking in of waters_ As fiercely and violently
as a river doth when a great breach is made in the bank which kept it
in. Hebrew, כפרצ רחב, _cheperetz rachab, as at a wide breach...
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They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters, like a wide breach
made in a dam or levee; IN THE DESOLATION, in the midst of the falling
ruins, THEY ROLLED THEMSELVES UPON ME, like an inrushing ar...
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JOB COMPLAINS OF THE CONTEMPT HE RECEIVES FROM MEN....
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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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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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AS A WIDE BREAKING IN OF WATERS; as fiercely and violently as a river
doth when a great breach is made in the bank which kept it in. Heb.
_as at a wide breach_; as a besieging army, having made a brea...
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Job 30:14 come H857 (H8799) broad H7342 breakers H6556 Under H8478
ruinous H7722 roll H1556 (H8701)
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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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Isaiah 8:7; Isaiah 8:8; Job 22:16; Psalms 18:4; Psalms 69:14;...
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Waste place — In the waste place; in that part of the bank which was
broken down. They rolled — As the waters, come rolling in at the
breach....