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Job 30:8-31

What meaning of the job 30:8-31 in the Bible?

What does Job 30:8-31 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.

  • Job 30:8

    They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

  • Job 30:9

    And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

  • Job 30:10

    They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

  • Job 30:11

    Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

  • Job 30:12

    Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

  • Job 30:13

    They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

  • Job 30:14

    They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

  • Job 30:15

    Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my sould as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

  • Job 30:16

    And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

  • Job 30:17

    My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

  • Job 30:18

    By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

  • Job 30:19

    He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

  • Job 30:20

    I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

  • Job 30:21

    Thou art becomee cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

  • Job 30:22

    Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.f

  • Job 30:23

    For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

  • Job 30:24

    Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave,g though they cry in his destruction.

  • Job 30:25

    Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

  • Job 30:26

    When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

  • Job 30:27

    My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

  • Job 30:28

    I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

  • Job 30:29

    I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.h

  • Job 30:30

    My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

  • Job 30:31

    My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

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