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Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 30:1-31

Chapter 30But 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 would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste: Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 30:1-31

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 and the folly of the untutored race. Job 30:4 . Who cut up mallows and juniper-roots for their meat. The rabbins are irrelevant here. Calmet is silent, and Schultens with all his Arabic is uncertain. But the monkeys in South Africa, when the leaves are decayed, will often guide the hungry... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 30:1-15

Job 30:1-15But now they that are younger than I have me in derision.Job’s social disabilitiesMan’s happiness as a social being is greatly dependent upon the kind feeling and respect which is shown to him by his contemporaries and neighbours. The social insolence from which he suffers, and of which he complains, was marked by the following circumstances:--I. It came from the most contemptible characters. He regarded them as despicable in their ancestry. “Whose fathers I would have disdained to... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 30:3

Job 30:3 For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. Ver. 3. For want and famine they were solitary ] Miserably poor they were, and nittily needy; scarce having a rag to their backs, and, therefore, ashamed to show themselves in company of others, propter penuriam, et propter esuriem, they lurked in bycorners, and seldom came abroad, unless when hard hunger drove the wolf out of the wood. Slow bellies they had ever been, and evil... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 30:3

solitary: or, dark as the night, Job 24:13-Nehemiah : fleeing into: Job 24:5, Hebrews 11:38 in former time: Heb. yesternight Reciprocal: Job 15:23 - wandereth Psalms 109:10 - General Jeremiah 48:6 - be like Jeremiah 49:3 - run Ezekiel 26:20 - in places Daniel 4:25 - drive Daniel 5:21 - he was driven read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 30:3

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.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. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 30:3

3. Solitary Similar to Job 3:7, (which see;) barren, emaciated, hard like the rock. Fleeing into Literally, gnawing the wilderness. The scantness of their livelihood appears from Job 30:4. Former time The prime import of this word, אמשׁ , is darkness, or yesternight, as in margin; others insist upon “the yesterday of waste and desolation.” The language denotes extreme desolation. read more