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Verse Job 30:12. _UPON_ MY _RIGHT_ HAND _RISE THE YOUTH_] The word
פרחח _pirchach_, which we translate _youth_, signifies properly
_buds_, or the _buttons_ of _trees_. Mr. _Good_ has _younglings_.
_Yo...
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UPON MY RIGHT HAND RISE THE YOUTH - The right hand is the place of
honor, and therefore it was felt to be a greater insult that they
should occupy even that place. The word rendered “youth” (פרחח
_pir...
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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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This verse reads,
Upon the right hand riseth up a (low) brood,
They push away my feet,
And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
By "pushing away" his feet, appears to be meant thrust...
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UPON MY RIGHT HAND RISE THE YOUTH— _On my right hand their brood
start up: they trip up my heels. Their troops of destruction throw up
an intrenchment round me:_ Heath: who, instead of, _they set forw...
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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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_UPON MY RIGHT HAND RISE THE YOUTH; THEY PUSH AWAY MY FEET, AND THEY
RAISE UP AGAINST ME THE WAYS OF THEIR DESTRUCTION._
Youth - rather, a (low) brood х_ PIRCHACH_ (H6526)]. To rise on the
right hand...
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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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THE YOUTH — _i.e._, the young brood, rabble....
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עַל ־יָמִין֮ פִּרְחַ֪ח יָ֫ק֥וּמוּ
רַגְלַ֥י שִׁלֵּ֑חוּ...
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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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Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and
they raise up against me the (h) ways of their destruction.
(h) That is, they sought by all means how they might destroy me....
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Forthwith. Hebrew pirchach seems to be translated (Haydock) by three
terms, rising, calamities, and forthwith, as it denotes "a bud" which
suddenly appears. (Calmet) --- Septuagint Greek: Blaston, "On...
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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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UPON [MY] RIGHT [HAND] RISE THE YOUTH,.... "Springeth", as Mr.
Broughton translates the word; such as were just sprung into being, as
it were; the word n seems to have the signification of young birds...
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Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and
they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Ver. 12. _Upon the right hand rise the youth_] Broughton readeth, The
spring...
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_Upon my right hand_ The place of adversaries or accusers in courts of
justice, Psalms 109:6; Zechariah 3:1. Or this may be observed to show
their boldness and contempt of him, in that they dared to p...
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JOB COMPLAINS OF THE CONTEMPT HE RECEIVES FROM MEN....
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Upon my right hand rise the youth, a brood of diseases and sufferings,
or, the brood of young rascals who were now mocking him; THEY PUSH
AWAY MY FEET, leaving him no foothold, no place to stand on, A...
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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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This could mean that they knocked Job to the ground, blocked his
paths, sought to harass and intimidate him....
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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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UPON MY RIGHT HAND. This circumstance is noted, either because this
was the place of adversaries or accusers in courts of justice, PSALMS
109:6 MALACHI 3:1; or to show their boldness and contempt of h...
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Job 30:12 right H3225 rabble H6526 arises H6965 (H8799) push H7971
(H8765) feet H7272 raise H5549
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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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_Upon my right hand rise the youth._
THE PROSPECTS OF LIFE
I. The prospects of life are generally bright. Young people are full
of buoyancy, animal spirits, ardent desire, sanguine expectation, high...
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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 3:5; Job 19:12; Job 19:18...
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Right hand — This was the place of adversaries or accusers in courts
of justice. The youth — Heb. young striplings, who formerly hid
themselves from my presence, Job 29:8. Push — Metaphorically, they...