Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Job 30:15
They pursue — i.e., “the terrors chase or pursue
my honour:” i.e., my soul; or it may be, “Thou (i.e., God) chasest.”
They pursue — i.e., “the terrors chase or pursue
my honour:” i.e., my soul; or it may be, “Thou (i.e., God) chasest.”
Verse Job 30:15. _TERRORS ARE TURNED UPON ME_] Defence is no longer useful; they have beat down my walls. _THEY PURSUE MY SOUL AS THE WIND_] I seek safety in flight, my strong holds being no longer...
TERRORS ARE TURNED UPON ME - As if they were all turned upon him, or made to converge toward him. Everything suited to produce terror seemed to have a direction given it toward him. Umbreit, and some...
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 SOUL. what is noble or excellent in me. Not _nephesh_ (App-13) here, as in Job 30:16 and Job 30:25. WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9....
Terrors are turned against me, They chase away my honour like the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud. He is assailed by terrors. The words "like the wind" mean, like as the wind chases...
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...
_TERRORS ARE TURNED UPON ME: THEY PURSUE MY SOUL AS THE WIND: AND MY WELFARE PASSETH AWAY AS A CLOUD._ They - terrors, SOUL, х_ NªDIBAATIY_ (H5082)] - rather, 'my dignity' х_ NAADIYB_ (H5081), will...
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...
MY SOUL] RV 'my honour.' 16-31. Job laments his misery of mind and body, and the severity of God....
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...
Before Job’s troubles, Job was confident. He thought that people would respect him for his whole life. He had great security (Job 29:18-20). But Job’s feeling of security was not real. And his honour...
הָהְפַּ֥ךְ עָלַ֗י בַּלָּ֫הֹ֥ות תִּרְדֹּ֣ף כָּ֭ † רוּחַ...
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...
_Nothing. Hebrew, "terror." (Haydock) --- Desire. Hebrew, "princess," reason. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "soul." Septuagint, "my hope has flown away like wind." (Haydock)_...
(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...
TERRORS ARE TURNED UPON ME,.... Not the terrors of a guilty conscience, for Job had a clear one, and held fast his integrity; nor the terrors of a cursing and condemning law, for he knew he was justif...
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. Ver. 15. _Terrors are turned upon me_] I am horribly afraid of thy judgments, as David expresseth...
_Terrors are turned upon me_ Many terrible things from God, who sets himself against me, and in some sort joins his forces with these miscreants, are directed against me, to whom they seem not to belo...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE CONTEMPT HE RECEIVES FROM MEN....
Terrors are turned upon me, the sudden fear of death; THEY PURSUE MY SOUL AS THE WIND, his dignity, his respect, and his influence like a storm; AND MY WELFARE PASSETH AWAY AS A CLOUD, his prosperity...
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...
MY SOUL: _ Heb._ my principal one...
Job certainly no longer felt safe. He was surrounded by terrors, and the thought of what this rabble might do to him. He has lost all respect and safety. "The picture is strikingly violent. Job's prin...
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...
TERRORS, to wit, from God, who sets himself against me, and in some sort joins his forces with these miscreants. ARE TURNED UPON ME; are directed against me, to whom they seem not to belong, as being...
Job 30:15 Terrors H1091 turned H2015 (H8717) pursue H7291 (H8799) honor H5082 wind H7307 prosperity H3444 passed...
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 30:9 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)....
_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...
Hosea 13:3; Hosea 6:4; Isaiah 44:22; Job 10:16; Job 6:4;...
Terrors — If he endeavoured to shake them off, they turned furiously upon him: if he endeavoured to out run them, they pursued his soul, as swiftly and violently as the wind....