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Verse Job 30:8. _CHILDREN OF FOOLS_] _Children of nabal; children
without_ _a name_; persons of no consideration, and descendants of
such.
_VILER THAN THE EARTH._] Rather, _driven out of the land_; p...
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THEY WERE CHILDREN OF FOOLS - The word rendered “fools” נבל
_nâbâl_, means,
(1) stupid, foolish; and
(2) abandoned, impious; compare 1 Samuel 25:3, 1 Samuel 25:25....
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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...
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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...
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CHILDREN. sons.
VILER THAN THE EARTH. smitten or scourged out of the land....
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The verse reads in close connexion with Job 30:7,
Children of fools, yea children of base men,
They are scourged out of the land.
Children of "base men," lit. _of no name_, i. e. base born, they ar...
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Description of this wretched class of outcasts. The _tenses_should all
be put in the present. The race of people referred to appears to be
the same as that in ch. 24....
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THEY WERE CHILDREN OF FOOLS— _Foolish men and inglorious, they were
driven out of the country in which they lived._ Job 30:9. _But now, I
am become their song,_ &c. Houb....
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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...
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_THEY WERE CHILDREN OF FOOLS, YEA, CHILDREN OF BASE MEN: THEY WERE
VILER THAN THE EARTH._
Fools - i:e., the impious and abandoned (1 Samuel 25:25).
BASE - Hebrew, nameless low-born rabble.
VILER T...
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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...
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Formerly the most important people would gather to listen to Job. And
they respected Job greatly.
But now, the worst youths would gather to see Job. They would insult
Job. And they would laugh at him...
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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...
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THEY WERE VILER THAN THE EARTH. — Rather, _They are scourged out of
the land,_ or _are outcasts from the land.
_...
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בְּֽנֵי ־נָ֭בָל גַּם ־בְּנֵ֣י בְלִי
־שֵׁ֑ם נ֝
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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...
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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...
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_And not. Hebrew, "viler than the earth." (Protestants)_...
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(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...
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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...
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[THEY WERE] CHILDREN OF FOOLS,.... Their parents were fools, or they
themselves were such; foolish children, or foolish men, were they that
derided Job; and their derision of him was a proof of it: th...
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Job 30:8 [They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men:
they were viler than the earth.
Ver. 8. _They were children of fools, yea, children of base men_]
_Homines flagitiosissimi, etiam ho...
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_They were children of fools_, &c. They were children of base, obscure
parents; viler than the earth upon which they trod. Houbigant
translates the verse: _Foolish men and inglorious, they were driven...
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They were children of fools, yea, children of base men, really,
no-account men; THEY WERE VILER THAN THE EARTH, literally, "who are
whipped out of the country," as useless and dangerous rabble, on the...
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JOB COMPLAINS OF THE CONTEMPT HE RECEIVES FROM MEN....
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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...
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BASE MEN:
_ Heb._ men of no name...
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"FOOLS, EVEN THOSE WITHOUT. NAME": Having no respectful standing in
the community, "nobodies". "Acting like fools who are so debased that
they do not even deserve to be given names" _(Zuck p. 130). _...
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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...
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CHILDREN OF FOOLS; either,
1. The genuine children of foolish parents; their children not only by
birth, but by imitation; as they only are esteemed _the children of
Abraham_ who _do the works of Abr...
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Job 30:8 sons H1121 fools H5036 sons H1121 men H8034 scourged H5217
(H8738) land H776
children -...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Chronicles 22:3; 2 Kings 8:18; 2 Kings 8:27; Isaiah 32:6; Jeremi