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Job 30:21
Thou art become cruel to me, the Lord changing His nature into that of a cruel tormentor; with Thy strong hand Thou opposest Thyself against me, making war upon him.
Thou art become cruel to me, the Lord changing His nature into that of a cruel tormentor; with Thy strong hand Thou opposest Thyself against me, making war upon him.
Verse Job 30:21. _THOU ART BECOME CRUEL TO ME_] Thou appearest to treat me with cruelty. I cry for mercy, trust in thy goodness, and am still permitted to remain under my afflictions. _THOU OPPOSEST...
THOU ART BECOME CRUEL TO ME - Margin, turned to be. This language, applied to God, seems to be harsh and irreverent, and it may well be inquired whether the word cruel does not express an idea which J...
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...
THOU ART BECOME CRUEL TO ME, &C.— This appears to be one of the most exceptionable passages in all Job's speeches. There seems to be a great want of decency, or of delicacy at least, in the expression...
b. His unhappy misery (Job 30:16-23) TEXT 30:16-23 16 AND NOW MY SOUL IS POURED OAT WITHIN ME; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And t...
_AND NOW MY SOUL IS POURED OUT UPON ME; THE DAYS OF AFFLICTION HAVE TAKEN HOLD UPON ME._ Job's outward calamities affect his mind. POURED OUT - in irrepressible complaints (Psalms 42:4; Joshua 7:5)...
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 accused God. God seemed so powerful. And Job was very weak. Job thought that God was using his great power to kill Job. It seems strange to remember Job 2:3. The truth is that God was proud of Jo...
תֵּהָפֵ֣ךְ לְ אַכְזָ֣ר לִ֑י בְּ עֹ֖צֶם יָדְךָ
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...
Thou art become (o) cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. (o) He does not speak this way to accuse God, but to declare the vehemency of his affliction, by which he was c...
(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...
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...
THOU ART BECOME CRUEL TO ME,.... Or "turned", or "changed" g, to be cruel to me. Job suggests that God had been kind and gracious to him, both in a way of providence, and in showing special love and f...
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 Brenti...
_Thou dost not hear me_ Namely, so as to answer or help me. _I stand up_ Namely, before thee: I pray importunately and continually, as thou requirest; _and thou regardest me not_ Notwithstanding all m...
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...
BECOME CRUEL: _ Heb._ turned to be cruel THY STRONG HAND: _ Heb._ the strength of thy hand...
Job feels that God has not merely been passively absent but actively cruel to him as well....
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...
BECOME CRUEL, Heb. _turned to be cruel_; as if thou hadst changed thy very nature, which is kind, and merciful, and gracious; and such thou hast been formerly in thy carriage to me; but now thou art g...
Job 30:21 become H2015 (H8735) cruel H393 strength H6108 hand H3027 oppose H7852 (H8799) me become cruel - Heb. turned to be cruel,...
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...
_Thou art become cruel to me._ JOB’S GRIEVANCE AGAINST GOD He 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 wo...
_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...
1 Peter 5:6; Jeremiah 30:14; Job 10:14; Job 13:25; Job 16:9;...
Turned — As if thou hadst changed thy very nature, which is kind, and merciful, and gracious....