George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 30:31
Weep. I have exchanged my sons of joy for mourning. (Menochius)
Weep. I have exchanged my sons of joy for mourning. (Menochius)
Verse Job 30:31. _MY HARP ALSO IS_ TURNED _TO MOURNING_] Instead of the _harp_, my only music is my own _plaintive cries_. _AND MY ORGAN_] What the עגב _uggab_ was, we know not; it was most probably...
MY HARP ALSO IS TURNED TO MOURNING - What formerly gave cheerful sounds, now gives only notes of plaintiveness and lamentation. The harp was probably an instrument originally designed to give sounds o...
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...
c. The disappointment of all his hopes (Job 30:24-31) TEXT 30:24-31 24 HOWBEIT DOTH NOT ONE STRETCH OUT THE HAND IN HIS FALL: Or in his calamity therefore cry for help? 25 Did not I weep for him t...
_MY HARP ALSO IS TURNED TO MOURNING, AND MY ORGAN INTO THE VOICE OF THEM THAT WEEP._ Organ - rather, pipe (Job 21:12): "My joy is turned into the voice of weeping" (Lamentations 5:15). My harp and pi...
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...
ORGAN] RV 'pipe.' Job's happiness is turned to sorrow. These Chapter s form a section by themselves, in which Job reviews his life. He first of all draws a picture of his past prosperous career, when...
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...
Formerly, Job played music. Then the sounds that he made were happy, like the sound of the children in Job 21:12. But now the sounds that Job made were sad. He would cry because of his pain. He sound...
MY HARP ALSO IS TURNED TO MOURNING. — Or, _Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of them that weep._ The musical instruments here named, like those of Genesis 4:21, are r...
וַ יְהִ֣י לְ֭ אֵבֶל כִּנֹּרִ֑י וְ֝ עֻגָבִ֗י
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...
(19) He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. (20) I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. (21) Thou art become cruel to me: with...
REFLECTIONS MY soul, behold in the sufferings of Job, what is, and deservedly ought to be, the lot of human nature. Born in sin, and therefore born to sorrow. And shall a living man complain, a man fo...
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...
MY HARP ALSO IS [TURNED] TO MOURNING,.... Which he used, as David, either in religious worship, expressing praise to God thereby, or for his recreation in an innocent way; but now it was laid aside, a...
My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. Ver. 31. _My harp also is turned to mourning_] All the days of the afflicted are evil, Proverbs 15:15, his harps a...
_My skin is black upon me_, &c. “The boiling heat of my body hath so parched me that my skin looks black, and the marrow in my bones, and all my vital moisture, are dried up.” _My harp also is turned...
THE UNSPEAKABLE MISERY AND DISAPPOINTMENT WITH WHICH JOB BATTLED...
My harp also, the lyre, or zither, or lute, as an instrument used upon joyful occasions, IS TURNED TO MOURNING AND MY ORGAN, the pipe also being an instrument of joy, INTO THE VOICE OF THEM THAT WEEP....
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...
"The glad, happy sounds are no more" _(Strauss p. 301)._ In addition, music that Job had enjoyed in the past, had lost all its pleasure, the verse may even suggest that Job played himself, but no long...
15-31 Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried...
Either, 1. I have now nothing but bitter lamentations instead of my former expressions of joy. Or, 2. Those very things which formerly were occasions and instruments of my delight, do now renew and...
Job 30:31 harp H3658 mourning H60 flute H5748 voice H6963 weep H1058 (H8802) Psalms 137:1-4
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:24 Job pictures himself as one of those whose cries for HELP he used to answer (vv. Job 30:24). In his own distress he has only found...
_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...
Daniel 6:18; Ecclesiastes 3:4; Isaiah 21:4; Isaiah 22:12; Isaiah 24:7