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HE HATH CAST ME INTO THE MIRE - That is, God has done it. In this book
the name of God is often understood where the speaker seems to avoid
it, in order that it may not be needlessly repeated. On the...
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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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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...
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_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)...
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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...
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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 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...
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הֹרָ֥נִי לַ † חֹ֑מֶר וָ֝ אֶתְמַשֵּׁ֗ל
כֶּ...
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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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(n) He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and
ashes.
(n) That is, God has brought me into contempt....
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_I am. Hebrew, "He hat cast me into the mire;" (Protestants) or, "He
regards me as dirt; my portion is on the earth and dust." (Haydock)
--- All look upon me with horror and contempt. (Calmet)_...
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(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...
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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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HE HATH CAST ME INTO THE MIRE,.... As Jeremiah was literally; here it
is to be understood in a figurative sense; not of the mire of sin,
into which God casts none, men fall into it of themselves, but...
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He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Ver. 19. _He hath cast me into the mire_] My disease hath, so Vatablus
senseth it. Others, God hath as it were trampled me to dirt,...
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_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...
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THE UNSPEAKABLE MISERY AND DISAPPOINTMENT WITH WHICH JOB BATTLED...
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He hath cast me into the mire, as an evidence of His great contempt,
AND I AM BECOME LIKE DUST AND ASHES, both on account of the appearance
of his skin and the dirt which he had strewn upon himself....
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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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God had cast him into the mire or the mud, Job felt that God was
behind this humiliation....
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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...
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He hath made me contemptible and filthy, and loathsome for my sores,
my whole body being a kind of quagmire, in regard of the filth
breaking forth in all its parts; AND I AM BECOME LIKE DUST AND ASHES...
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Job 30:19 cast H3384 (H8689) mire H2563 like H4911 (H8691) dust H6083
ashes H665
cast me -...
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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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_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...
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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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Genesis 18:27; Jeremiah 38:6; Job 2:8; Job 42:6; Job 9:31;...