Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 30:3
Solitary] RV 'gaunt.'
Flying, etc.] render, 'Fugitives in the desert on the eve of want and ruin.'
Solitary] RV 'gaunt.'
Flying, etc.] render, 'Fugitives in the desert on the eve of want and ruin.'
Verse Job 30:3. _FLEEING INTO THE WILDERNESS_] Seeking something to sustain life even in the barren desert. This shows the extreme of want, when the desert is supposed to be the only place where any t...
FOR WANT AND FAMINE - By hunger and poverty their strength is wholly exhausted, and they are among the miserable outcasts of society. In order to show the depth to which he himself was sunk in public...
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...
Description of this wretched class of outcasts. The _tenses_should all be put in the present. The race of people referred to appears to be the same as that in ch. 24....
The verse reads, With want and hunger they are gaunt, They gnaw the desert, in former time desolate and waste. The first clause refers to the "shriveled" appearance of these outcasts from want; the...
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...
_FOR WANT AND FAMINE THEY WERE SOLITARY; FLEEING INTO THE WILDERNESS IN FORMER TIME DESOLATE AND WASTE._ _ FOR WANT AND FAMINE THEY WERE SOLITARY; FLEEING INTO THE WILDERNESS IN FORMER TIME DESOLATE A...
30:3 into (d-9) Or 'they gnaw.'...
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...
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...
בְּ חֶ֥סֶר וּ בְ כָפָ֗ן גַּ֫לְמ֥וּד הַֽ
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...
_Who. Hebrew, "solitary in," &c. Yet these vagabond (Haydock) people now insult over me. (Calmet)_...
(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...
FOR WANT AND FAMINE [THEY WERE] SOLITARY,.... The Targum interprets it, without children; but then this cannot be understood of the fathers; rather through famine and want they were reduced to the utm...
_For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste._ Ver. 3. _For want and famine they were solitary_] Miserably poor they were, and nittily need...
_For want and famine_ Brought upon them either by their own sloth or wickedness, or by God's just judgment. Hebrew, בחסר, _becheser, In want and famine_, which aggravates their following solitude. _Th...
For want and famine they were solitary, through want and hunger they were starved, their energy and strength were exhausted; FLEEING INTO THE WILDERNESS IN FORMER TIME DESOLATE AND WASTE, they gnaw at...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE CONTEMPT HE RECEIVES FROM MEN....
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...
SOLITARY: Or, dark as the night IN FORMER TIME: _ Heb._ yesternight...
They are thin from not having enough to eat and they act like animals "gnawing the ground in an effort to get food" _(Zuck p. 130)._...
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...
WANT AND FAMINE, brought upon them either by their own sloth or wickedness, or by God's just judgment. Heb. _In want and famine_, which aggravates their following solitude. Although want commonly driv...
Job 30:3 gaunt H1565 want H2639 famine H3720 Fleeing H6207 (H8802) late H570 wilderness H6723 desolate H7722 waste...
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...
_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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:1 Although Job had delivered the truly needy from their unrighteous oppressors (Job 29:11), those who now mock him are themselves needy, because of their own actions and foolishness...
_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...
Hebrews 11:38; Job 24:13; Job 24:5...
Solitary — Although want commonly drives persons to places of resort for relief, yet they were so conscious of their own guilt, that they shunned company, and for fear or shame fled into, and lived in...