Down, ( devoluti sunt.) They have proceeded to aggravate my misfortunes. (Haydock) --- "They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. ["] (Protestants)
Verse Job 30:14. _THEY CAME_ UPON ME _AS A WIDE BREAKING IN_] They _storm_ me on every side. _IN THE DESOLATION THEY ROLLED THEMSELVES_] When they had made the _breach_, they _rolled in_ upon me as...
THEY CAME UPON ME AS A WIDE BREAKING-IN OF WATERS - The Hebrew here is simply, “Like a wide breach they came,” and the reference may be, not to an inundation, as our translators supposed, but to an ir...
CHAPTER 30 _ 1. His present humiliation and shame (Job 30:1)_ 2. No answer from God: completely forsaken (Job 30:20) Job 30:1. He had spoken of his past greatness and now he describes his present mi...
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 as a misplaced section...
Further description of the outrageous insults of these base outcasts....
The verse reads, They come in as through a wide breach, Amidst the crash they roll themselves upon me. The figure is that of a stormed fastness. The "crash" is that of the falling walls....
THEY CAME UPON ME, &C.— _They come on, as to a wide breach; they roll themselves on against me, like desolation._...
2. Sorrowful description of his present sad estate (Job 30:1-31) a. The contempt he has from men of lowest class (Job 30:1-15) TEXT 30:1-15 1 BUT NOW THEY THAT ARE YOUNGER THAN I HAVE ME IN DERISIO...
_THEY CAME UPON ME AS A WIDE BREAKING IN OF WATERS: IN THE DESOLATION THEY ROLLED THEMSELVES UPON ME._ Waters - (so 2 Samuel 5:20). But it is better to retain the image of Job 30:12. "They came (upon...
JOB'S PRESENT MISERY Job 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...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 30 JOB MAKES A LIST OF HIS...
Job watched the youths as they talked. And Job thought that they were making plans to attack him. Job felt too ill to avoid them. Of course, a city cannot move when its enemies attack. So Job thought...
AS A WIDE BREAKING IN OF WATERS. — Or, _as through a wide breach they come._ “In the midst of the crash they roll themselves upon me;” or, “instead of A tempest” (_I.E.,_ like a tempest) “they roll th...
כְּ פֶ֣רֶץ רָחָ֣ב יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ תַּ֥חַת שֹׁ֝אָ֗ה...
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1; Job 30:1; Job 31:1 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job looks back to the y...
Immediately Job passed to the description of his present condition, which is all the more startling as it stands in contrast with what he had said concerning the past. He first described the base who...
They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the (k) desolation they rolled themselves [upon me]. (k) By my calamity they took an opportunity against me....
(1) В¶ But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. (2) Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit m...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
THEY CAME [UPON ME] AS A WIDE BREAKING IN [OF WATERS],.... As when a wide breach is made in the banks of a river, or of the sea, the waters rush through in great abundance, with great rapidity and swi...
They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me]. Ver. 14. _They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters_] _Quasi irruptione lata invadun...
_They came as a wide breaking in of waters_ As fiercely and violently as a river doth when a great breach is made in the bank which kept it in. Hebrew, כפרצ רחב, _cheperetz rachab, as at a wide breach...
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters, like a wide breach made in a dam or levee; IN THE DESOLATION, in the midst of the falling ruins, THEY ROLLED THEMSELVES UPON ME, like an inrushing ar...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE CONTEMPT HE RECEIVES FROM MEN....
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, w...
1-14 Job contrasts his present condition with his former honour and authority. What little cause have men to be ambitious or proud of that which may be so easily lost, and what little confidence is to...
AS A WIDE BREAKING IN OF WATERS; as fiercely and violently as a river doth when a great breach is made in the bank which kept it in. Heb. _as at a wide breach_; as a besieging army, having made a brea...
Job 30:14 come H857 (H8799) broad H7342 breakers H6556 Under H8478 ruinous H7722 roll H1556 (H8701)
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He reviews his present condition. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: The best saints often receive the worst of indignities from a spiteful and scornful wor...
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...
_But now they that are younger than I have me in derision._ JOB’S SOCIAL DISABILITIES Man’s happiness as a social being is greatly dependent upon the kind feeling and respect which is shown to him b...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:9 Job describes his three friends as casting off any RESTRAINT, as if they were taking advantage of an easy military conquest (THROUGH A WIDE BREACH)....
_THE CONTRAST.—JOB’S SOLILOQUY, CONTINUED_ With 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 complai...
EXPOSITION JOB 30:1 The contrast is now completed. Having drawn the portrait of himself as he was, rich, honoured, blessed with children, flourishing, in favour with both God and man, Job now present...
But 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 wo...
Isaiah 8:7; Isaiah 8:8; Job 22:16; Psalms 18:4; Psalms 69:14;...
Waste place — In the waste place; in that part of the bank which was broken down. They rolled — As the waters, come rolling in at the breach....