Job 30:1

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 30:1

Job 30:1. But now, &c. Job having, in the foregoing chapter, described the honour of his former condition, goes on here, by way of contrast, to describe the vileness of his present state. They that are younger than I Whom both universal custom and the light of nature taught to reverence their elders and betters; have me in derision Make me the object of their contempt and scoffs: thus my glory is turned into shame. Whose fathers I would have disdained Or, rather, might have... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 30:1-31

Past glory; present humiliation (29:1-30:31)Since the three friends have nothing more to say, Job proceeds to show that in the past he had indeed tried to fear God and avoid wrongdoing. So close was his fellowship with God in those days that he could call it friendship (29:1-4). He was blessed with family happiness and prosperity (5-6). He was one of the city elders and was highly respected by the whole community (7-10).Most rulers were corrupt, favouring the rich and oppressing the poor, but... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 30:1

I. Note the "I" of adversity in Job 30:0 . See note on Job 29:2 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 30:1

JOB 30JOB'S PRESENT DISTRESS -THE SECOND MEMBER OF THE TRILOGY: JOB'S SUFFERINGSIn this chapter, Job's period of suffering and distress is vividly contrasted with the glory and honor of the days of his exaltation. "This chapter is perhaps the most pathetic of all Job's poems of grief and a fitting finish to all the earlier ones."[1]"The repetition of `But now ... and now ... and now' in Job 30:1,9,16 effectively accents the themes in which Job contrasts the bleak, turbulent present with the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 30:1

CHAP. XXX. Job goes on to lament the change of his former condition, and sets forth the contempt into which his adversity had brought him. Before Christ 1645. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 30:1

1. younger—not the three friends (Job 15:10; Job 32:4; Job 32:6; Job 32:7). A general description: Job 32:7- :, the lowness of the persons who derided him; Job 32:7- :, the derision itself. Formerly old men rose to me (Job 32:7- :). Now not only my juniors, who are bound to reverence me (Leviticus 19:32), but even the mean and base-born actually deride me; opposed to, "smiled upon" (Leviticus 19:32- :). This goes farther than even the "mockery" of Job by relations and friends (Job 12:4; Job... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 30:1-31

Job’s present misery ch. 30"Chapter 29 speaks of what the Lord gave to Job and chapter 30 speaks of what the Lord took away (cf. Job 1:21)." [Note: Zuck, Job, p. 129.] Job was presently without respect (Job 30:1-15), disregarded (Job 30:16-23), and despondent (Job 30:24-31). He had formerly enjoyed the respect of the most respectable, but now he experienced the contempt of the most contemptible (Job 30:1-15; cf. Job 29:8; cf. Job 29:21-25). [Note: Andersen, p. 235.] "The lengthy description of... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 30:1-31

Job’s Present MiseryJob bitterly contrasts his present with his past condition, as described in Job 29. It must be borne in mind that Job was now outcast and beggared.1-8. Job complains that he is insulted by abject outcasts, the class of broken men who are expelled from respectable tribes and live by thieving. They are common E. of Jordan in the nomadic regions.2b. RV ’Men in whom ripe age’ (or vigour) ’is perished.’3. Solitary] RV ’gaunt.’Flying, etc.] render, ’Fugitives in the desert on the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 30:1

XXX.(1) Whose fathers I would have disdained.—Rather, whose fathers I disdained to set. The complaint is that the children of those who were so inferior to him should treat him thus. read more

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

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