Job 30:8 ASV

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 30:1-31

Job 30. Job’ s Present Misery.— As the text stands at present, Job begins by complaining that the very abjects of society now despise him. Many scholars, however, detach Job 30:2-Ruth : as a misplaced section of the description of the outcasts, which we have already met in Job 24:5 f. “ When we look at the passage apart from Job 30:1, the impression it makes is not one of contempt for their abject condition, but of pity for their misery. Hence the greater part would have been better suited to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 30:8

Children of fools; either, 1. The genuine children of foolish parents; their children not only by birth, but by imitation; as they only are esteemed the children of Abraham who do the works of Abraham, John 8:39. Or, 2. Fools, by a common Hebraism, as the sons of men are put for men, and the children of wisdom for wise men, &c. Children of base men, Heb. men without name, i.e. without any degree of credit or reputation; as men of name is put for renowned persons, Genesis 6:4. Viler than the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 30:1-31

THE CONTRAST.—JOB’S SOLILOQUY, CONTINUEDWith his former state of happiness and honour Job now contrasts his present misery and degradation. His object as well to show the grounds he has for complaint as to ease his burdened spirit. Probably now sitting in the open air, near his own residence, outside the city. Still among the ashes, and covered from head to foot with the worst form of leprosy. Abandoned by his wife and domestics, and viewed by his pious visitors as suffering the penalty of past... read more

Chuck Smith

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 30:8

Job 30:8 [They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. Ver. 8. They were children of fools, yea, children of base men ] Homines flagitiosissimi, etiam homines ignominiosissimi afflictissimi erant, extorres, so Tremellius translateth; Naught all over they were, and nought esteemed; what wonder, therefore, if heavily afflicted and relegated? Their poverty was self-procured, and, therefore, unpitied; they had brought themselves into the briars, and... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 30:8

children: 2 Kings 8:18, 2 Kings 8:27, 2 Chronicles 22:3, Psalms 49:10-1 Chronicles :, Jeremiah 7:18, Mark 6:24 fools: Proverbs 1:7, Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 16:22 base men: Heb. men of no name viler: Job 40:4, Psalms 15:4, Isaiah 32:6 Reciprocal: Judges 9:4 - vain 1 Samuel 25:21 - Surely 2 Samuel 6:20 - vain fellows 2 Kings 2:23 - little children 2 Chronicles 13:7 - vain men Psalms 12:8 - men Psalms 69:12 - I was Nahum 3:6 - make Matthew 27:30 - General Mark 15:19 - they smote read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 30:8

8. They were viler than the earth Rather, They are beaten out of the land. Our aborigines furnish a parallel case. read more