Chapter 30:
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Job 30
Job's honour is turned into contempt, ver. 1-14. His
prosperity, into fears, pains, and a sense of the wrath of God, ver.
15-22. He looks for nothing but death, ver. 23. And rest therein,
ver. 24. Reflects on his former sympathy with the afflicted, ver. 25. And describes his own present calamities, ver. 26-31.
Verse 1. Younger - Whom both universal custom, and the light of
nature, taught to reverence their elders and betters. Whose fathers
- Whose condition was so mean, that in the opinion, of the world,
they were unworthy to be my shepherds the companions of my
dogs which watch my flocks.
Verse 3. 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 desolate places.
Verse 4. Who cut - Bitter herbs, which shews their extreme necessity.
Juniper - Possibly the word may signify some other plant, for the
Hebrew themselves are at a loss for the signification of the names
of plants.
Verse 7. Brayed - Like the wild asses, for hunger or thirst. Thorns -
Under which they hide themselves, that they might not be
discovered when they are sought out for justice.
Verse 10. Spit - Not literally, for they kept far from him, but
figuratively, they use all manner of reproachful expressions, even
to my face. Herein, also we see a type of Christ, who was thus
made a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Verse 11. He - God. Cord - Hath slackened the string of my bow, and so
rendered my bow and arrows useless; he hath deprived me of my
strength or defense. Let loose - They cast off all former restraints
of humanity, or modesty, and do those things before mine eyes,
which formerly they trembled lest they should come to my ears.
Verse 12. Right hand - This was the place of adversaries or accusers in
courts of justice. The youth - Hebrew. young striplings, who
formerly hid themselves from my presence, chap. xxix, 8. Push -
Metaphorically, they endeavour to overwhelm me. Ways - Cause-
ways, or banks: so it is a metaphor from soldiers, who cast up
banks, against the city which they besiege. Destruction - To
destroy me.
Verse 13. Mar - As I am in great misery, so they endeavour to stop all
my ways out of it. Set forward - Increasing it by their invectives,
and censures. Even they - Who are themselves in a forlorn and
miserable condition.
Verse 14. Waste place - In the waste place; in that part of the bank
which was broken down. They rolled - As the waters, come
rolling in at the breach.
Verse 15. 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.
Verse 20. I stand - I pray importunately and continually.
Verse 21. Turned - As if thou hadst changed thy very nature, which is
kind, and merciful, and gracious.
Verse 22. Thou - Thou exposest me, to all sorts of storms and
calamities; so that I am like chaff or stubble lifted up to the wind,
and violently tossed hither and thither in the air. Substance - By
which, my body is almost consumed, and my heart is melted
within me.
Verse 23. House appointed - The grave is a narrow, dark, cold house,
but there we shall rest and be safe. It is our home, for it is our
mother's lap, and in it we are gathered to our fathers. It is an house
appointed for us, by him that has appointed the bounds of all our
habitations. And it is appointed for all living. It is the common
receptacle for rich and poor: we must all be brought thither, and
that shortly.
Verse 24. To the grave - The hand of God's wrath will not follow me
beyond death; I shall then be safe and easy: Tho' men cry in his
destruction: tho' most men cry and are affrighted, while they are
dying, while the body is sinking into destruction; yet I desire it, I
have nothing to fear therein, since I know that my redeemer
liveth.
Verse 25. Did not I - Have I now judgment without mercy, because I
afforded no mercy to others in misery? No; my conscience acquits
me from this inhumanity: I did mourn over others in their
miseries.
Verse 26. Upon me - Yet trouble came upon myself, when I expected it
not.
Verse 27. Affliction - Came upon me suddenly, and unexpectedly, when
I promised myself peace and prosperity.
Verse 28. Without the sun - Hebrew. black, not by the sun. My very
countenance became black, tho' not by the sun, but by the force of
my disease.
Verse 29. A brother - By imitation of their cries: persons of like qualities
are often called brethren. Dragon - Which howl and wail
mournfully in the deserts.
Chapter 30:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Esther Psalms
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