Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 30:22
Figurative of the storm of God's anger. Dissolvest my substance] RV' dissolvest me in the tempest.'
Figurative of the storm of God's anger. Dissolvest my substance] RV' dissolvest me in the tempest.'
Verse Job 30:22. _THOU LIFTEST ME UP TO THE WIND_] Thou hast so completely stripped me of all my substance, that I am like _chaff_ lifted up by the wind; or as a _straw_, the sport of every breeze; an...
THOU LIFTEST ME UP TO THE WIND - The sense here is, that he was lifted up as stubble is by a tempest, and driven mercilessly along. The figure of riding upon the wind or the whirlwind, is common in Or...
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...
MY SUBSTANCE. See note on "sound wisdom", Proverbs 2:7....
THOU LIFTEST ME UP TO THE WIND— _Thou liftest me up: thou causest me to ride upon the wind; nay, thou dissolvest my very existence._ Heath. Houbigant renders the last clause, _But salvation shall not...
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)...
30:22 to (a-5) Or 'on.' away, (b-14) Or 'causest my welfare (well-being) to melt away.' substance. (c-18) Others read 'Thou dissolvest me by tempest,' explained as 'Thou hast terrified [me].'...
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 accused God. God seemed so powerful. And Job was very weak. Job thought that God was using his great power to kill Job. It seems strange to remember Job 2:3. The truth is that God was proud of Jo...
THOU LIFTEST ME UP TO THE WIND. — Some render this verse, “Thou liftest me up to the wind, and causest me to ride upon it; Thou dissolvest me in thy blast;” others understand him to express the contra...
תִּשָּׂאֵ֣נִי אֶל ־ר֖וּחַ תַּרְכִּיבֵ֑נִי וּ֝ תְמֹגְגֵ֗נִי _תּוּשִׁיָּֽה_
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...
Thou liftest me up to the (p) wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance. (p) He compares his afflictions to a tempest or whirlwind....
_Dashed me in pieces, as if I had been raised so high for that purpose. Hebrew, "thou hast dissolved my substance," wisdom, &c. The signification of tushiova (Haydock) is very indeterminate, chap. v....
(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...
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...
THOU LIFTEST ME UP TO THE WIND,.... Of affliction and adversity, to be carried up with it, and tossed about by it, as chaff or stubble, or a dry leaf, being no more able to stand up against it than su...
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance. Ver. 22. _Thou liftest me up to the wind_] Thou whifflest and wherriest me about as chaff or thistle do...
_Thou liftest me up to the wind_ Thou exposest me to all sorts of storms and calamities, so that I am like chaff or stubble lifted up to the wind, and violently tossed hither and thither in the air. _...
Thou liftest me up to the wind, making him a plaything of the storm; THOU CAUSEST ME TO RIDE UPON IT AND DISSOLVEST MY SUBSTANCE, rending him apart by the fierceness of the tempest....
THE UNSPEAKABLE MISERY AND DISAPPOINTMENT WITH WHICH JOB BATTLED...
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...
SUBSTANCE: Or, wisdom...
God, who had tossed him into the mud, had now tossed him helplessly into the middle of. storm....
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...
THOU LIFTEST ME UP TO THE WIND; thou dost not suffer me to rest or lie still for a moment, but disquietest me, and exposest me to all sorts of storms and calamities; so that I am like chaff or stubble...
Job 30:22 up H5375 (H8799) wind H7307 ride H7392 (H8686) spoil H4127 (H8787) success H8454 ...
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 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...
Ezekiel 5:2; Hosea 13:3; Hosea 4:19; Isaiah 17:13; Jeremiah 4:11;...
Thou — Thou exposest me, to all sorts of storms and calamities; so that I am like chaff or stubble lifted up to the wind, and violently tossed hither and thither in the air. Substance — By which, my b...