Job 30:20-22

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 30:22

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou dost not suffer me to rest or lie still for a moment, but disquietest me, and exposest me to all sorts of storms and calamities; so that I am like chaff or stubble lifted up to the wind, and violently tossed hither and thither in the air, without the least stop or hinderance. To ride upon it, i.e. to be carried and hurried about by it. By this restlessness, and the vehemency of these winds, my body is almost consumed and wasted, and my heart is melted within... 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 30:16-20

Job 30:16-20The days of affliction have taken hold upon me.Physical painIn these verses the patriarch sketches his great corporeal sufferings, his physical anguish. Probably man’s capability of bodily suffering is greater than that of any other animal existence. His nerves are more tender, his organisation is more exquisite and complicated.I. It tends to stimulate intellectual research. “Pain,” says a modern author, “has been the means of our increasing our knowledge, our skill, and our... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 30:20

Job 30:20I cry unto Thee, and Thou dost not hear me. Unanswered prayer1. There is no state so low but a godly man may have a freedom with God in prayer. Though a poor soul be in the mire, though he be but dust and ashes, yet he hath access to the throne of grace.2. It is our duty to pray most, and usually we pray best, when it is worst with us; when we are nigh the mire and dust, prayer is not only most seasonable, but most pure.3. Affliction provokes a soul to pray to the utmost, to pray not... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 30:21

Job 30:21Thou art become cruel to me.Job’s grievance against GodHe says that God, who formerly had been kind to him, was now become cruel in His actings and dispensations toward him; and whereas He was wont to support him, He did now employ His power, as an enemy, in opposition to him. Job, in expressing his sorrow and resentments, is too pathetic, and expresseth much passion and weakness, for which he is reproved by Elihu. Considering this complaint in itself, it teacheth--1. It is the way of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 30:20

Job 30:20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not]. Ver. 20. I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me ] This was a sore trial, that God should cast him into straits, and there leave him. His enemies indeed he usually dealeth so by, Ezekiel 22:20 ; Ezekiel 29:5 , but not by his servants, Hebrews 13:5 . Or if he do leave them, yet he will not forsake them. The mother leaves her child sometimes, but when he setteth up his note and crieth lustily, she... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 30:21

Job 30:21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. Ver. 21. Thou art become cruel to me ] Mutatus es mihi in tyrannum, thou art turned tyrant towards me, so Brentius rendereth it; and the like he had said before, Job 16:13 ; Job 19:8-10 , out of the vehemency of his pain, and the sense of his flesh, which should have been silenced, and faith exalted; the property whereof is to pick one contrary out of another (as life out of death, assurance of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 30:22

Job 30:22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance. Ver. 22. Thou liftest me up to the wind ] Thou whifflest and wherriest me about as chaff or thistle down. Pro libidine tractas me thou usest me at thy pleasure (Brent.). Thou causest me to ride upon it ] Upon the wings of the wind, lifting me up aloft, that I may fall with the greater poise, as the eagle is said to do the tortoise; Ut lapsu graviore ruam. - Thou dissolvest my substance... read more

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