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William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 30:1-31

Job 30:15-16 This sickness brought him so near to the gates of death, and he saw the grave so ready to devour him, that he would often say, his recovery was supernatural. And then, being with his eldest daughter, Mrs. Harvey, at Abury Hatch in Essex, he there fell into a fever, which, with the help of his constant infirmity vapours from the spleen hastened him into so visible a consumption, that his beholders might say of him, as St. Paul of himself, 'I die daily,' and he might say with Job,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 30:1-31

XXIV.AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KINGJob 29:1-25; Job 30:1-31; Job 31:1-40Job SPEAKSFROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job looks back to the years of prosperity and health which in long succession he once enjoyed. This parable or review of the past ends his contention. Honour and blessedness are apparently denied him forever. With what has been he compares his present misery and proceeds to a bold and noble vindication of his character... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

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

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 30:29

30:29 I am a brother to {u} dragons, and a companion to owls.(u) I am like the wild beasts that desire solitary places. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 30:30

30:30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with {x} heat.(x) With the heat of affliction. 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 30:19-31

(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 thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. (22) Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance. (23) For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. (24) Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 30:31

REFLECTIONS MY soul, behold in the sufferings of Job, what is, and deservedly ought to be, the lot of human nature. Born in sin, and therefore born to sorrow. And shall a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Job stands forth, in this instance, a living monument of what our nature, universally speaking, is exposed to. And but for the interposition of grace, in the mercy and love of GOD our FATHER, in giving his dear Son, and the Son of GOD in coming, and the HOLY SPIRIT in... read more

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