Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 30:18
Changed] lit. 'disfigured.' His complaint causes painful changes in his appearance.
Changed] lit. 'disfigured.' His complaint causes painful changes in his appearance.
Verse Job 30:18. _IS MY GARMENT CHANGED_] There seem to be here plain allusions to the effect of his cruel disease; the whole body being enveloped with a kind of elephantine hide, formed by innumerabl...
BY THE GREAT FORCE OF MY DISEASE - The words “of my disease” are not in the Hebrew. The usual interpretation of the passage is, that in consequence of the foul and offensive nature of his malady, his...
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...
COLLAR: the opening in the tunic for the neck....
b. His unhappy misery (Job 30:16-23) TEXT 30:16-23 16 AND NOW MY SOUL IS POURED OAT WITHIN ME; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And t...
_AND NOW MY SOUL IS POURED OUT UPON ME; THE DAYS OF AFFLICTION HAVE TAKEN HOLD UPON ME._ Job's outward calamities affect his mind. POURED OUT - in irrepressible complaints (Psalms 42:4; Joshua 7:5)...
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...
Job was suffering pain because of his illness. The pain reminded him of clothing that someone cannot remove. So the pain affected Job’s whole body. The pain also reminded Job of a collar. It felt as i...
MY GARMENT CHANGED. — Some render “By His (_i.e.,_ God’s) great power the garment (of my skin) is disfigured;” and others, “With great effort must my garment be changed because of the sores to which i...
בְּ רָב ־כֹּ֖חַ יִתְחַפֵּ֣שׂ לְבוּשִׁ֑י כְּ פ
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...
_Coat. The worms are so numerous, (Menochius) or my enemies pour upon me. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "with great power He (God; Protestants, my disease) has seized me by the garment." Theodotion adds, ...
(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...
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...
BY THE GREAT FORCE [OF MY DISEASE] IS MY GARMENT CHANGED,.... Either the colour of it, through the purulent matter from his ulcers running down upon it, or penetrating through it; or by reason of it h...
By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. Ver. 18. _By the great force of my disease is my garment changed_] _sc._ _Sudore, cruore, sanie...
_By the great force of my disease_, &c. The words, _of my disease_, are not in the Hebrew, neither do they seem to be rightly supplied, but rather to obscure the sense of the clause, which, without an...
THE UNSPEAKABLE MISERY AND DISAPPOINTMENT WITH WHICH JOB BATTLED...
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed, by God's fearful power his clothes lost all their semblance, hanging about his shrunken form loose and flapping, more like a sack than a dress;...
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...
Either Job is saying that his running sores had discolored his garment or that his clothing was twisted by his agonized tossing and turning at night, or that God had grabbed him as if by the garment a...
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...
My disease is so strong and prevalent, that it breaks forth every where in my body, in such plenty of purulent and filthy matter, that it infects and discolours my very garments. Others, _By the great...
Job 30:18 great H7230 force H3581 garment H3830 disfigured H2664 (H8691) binds H247 (H8799) collar H6310 coat...
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...
_The days of affliction have taken hold upon me._ PHYSICAL PAIN In these verses the patriarch sketches his great corporeal sufferings, his physical anguish. Probably man’s capability of bodily suffe...
_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 1:5; Isaiah 1:6; Job 19:20; Job 2:7; Job 7:5;...