Job 30:8 ASV

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Job 30:1-31

CHAPTER 30 1. His present humiliation and shame (Job 30:1-19 ) 2. No answer from God: completely forsaken (Job 30:20-31 ) Job 30:1-19 . He had spoken of his past greatness and now he describes his present misery. Ah! the bitterness if it--those younger than I have me in derision! Alas! through it all we hear nothing but pride. He scorns those who were so much beneath him. And those who were scourged out of the land, these children of fools and base men, mock him, the former prince among... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Job 30:1-31

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, were making Job the subject of their mockery, - men whose fathers Job would have disdained to employ to work with the dogs that cared for his flocks (v.1). This reveals. another side of Job's character. He spoke before of his delivering the poor and the fatherless and those who had no helpers... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Job 30:1-31

THIRD SERIES OF THE DEBATE 1. With Eliphaz (chaps. 22-24) a. Speech of Eliphaz (chap. 22) b. Reply of Job (chaps. 23-24) 2. With Bildad (chaps. 25-26) a. Speech of Bildad (chap. 25) b. Reply of Job (chap. 26) 3. With Zophar (chaps. 27-31) a. Continuation of the reply of Job (chaps. 27-31) The last speech Eliphaz makes, chapter 22, is a grand effort to refute Job based upon the latter’s appeal to facts. There is more severity in it than he has shown before. He charges Job with cruelty,... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Job 30:1-31

Changes of Fortune Job 30:0 Job has been comparing his past and his present from a personal and social point of view. Hear his words in the twenty-ninth chapter, "The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth" ( Job 30:8-10 ). That was the past condition of affairs in Job's social circle. He was chief, king, dominant... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 30:1-18

(1) ¶ 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 me, in whom old age was perished? (3) For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. (4) Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. (5) They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) (6)... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 30:8

And not. Hebrew, "viler than the earth." (Protestants) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Job 30:1-14

1-14 Job contrasts his present condition with his former honour and authority. What little cause have men to be ambitious or proud of that which may be so easily lost, and what little confidence is to be put in it! We should not be cast down if we are despised, reviled, and hated by wicked men. We should look to Jesus, who endured the contradiction of sinners. read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Job 30:1-15

Job Complains of the Contempt he Receives from Men. v. 1. But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, foolish and immature youngsters, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock, to put on a level with the lowest shepherds in his employ, mainly on account of their general untrustworthiness and improvidence. v. 2. Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, what use could he possibly make of it, in whom old age was perished, whose... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 30:1-31

SECOND CHIEF DIVISION OF THE POEMDISENTANGLEMENT OF THE MYSTERY THROUGH THE DISCOURSES OF JOB, ELIHU AND JEHOVAHJob 29:1 to Job 42:6First Stage of the DisentanglementJob 29-31Job’s Soliloquy, setting forth the truth that his suffering was not due to his moral conduct, that it must have therefore a deeper cause. [The negative side of the solution of the problem.]1. Yearning retrospect at the fair prosperity of his former lifeJob 29:0a. Describing the outward appearance of this former... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Job 30:1-31

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 now held him in contempt. In the old days the highest reverenced him. Now the very lowest and basest held him in derision, Now I am become their song. They chase mine honour as the wind. But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to... read more