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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...
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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...
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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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COLLAR: the opening in the tunic for the neck....
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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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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...
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בְּ רָב ־כֹּ֖חַ יִתְחַפֵּ֣שׂ
לְבוּשִׁ֑י כְּ פִ֖י כֻתָּנְתִּ֣י
יַֽאַזְרֵֽנִי׃...
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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...
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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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_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, ...
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(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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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,...
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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...
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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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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...
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Job 30:18 great H7230 force H3581 garment H3830 disfigured H2664
(H8691) binds H247 (H8799) collar H6310 coat H3801
By the great - Job 2:7, Job 7:5, Job 19:20; Psalms 38:5; Isa
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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 presen...
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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 w...
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Isaiah 1:5; Isaiah 1:6; Job 19:20; Job 2:7; Job 7:5; Psalms 38:5...