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Verse Job 30:5. _THEY WERE DRIVEN FORTH_] They were persons whom no
one would employ; they were driven away from the city; and if any of
them appeared, the hue and cry was immediately raised up agains...
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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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Such creatures when they approach civilized dwellings are driven forth
and pursued with cries as men do a thief.
They are driven forth from among men,
They cry after them as after a thief,
And they...
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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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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 DRIVEN FORTH FROM AMONG MEN, (THEY CRIED AFTER THEM AS
AFTER A THIEF;)_
They cried - i:e., a cry is raised, etc. Expressing the contempt felt
for this race by civilized and well-born Arabs...
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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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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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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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מִן ־גֵּ֥ו יְגֹרָ֑שׁוּ יָרִ֥יעוּ
עָ֝לֵ֗ימֹו כַּ †...
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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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They were (d) driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as
[after] a thief;)
(d) Job shows that those who mocked him in his affliction were like
their fathers, wicked and lewd fellows, su...
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_Who. Septuagint, "through excessive hunger. Robbers rushed upon me."
Protestants, "They were driven forth from among men; (the cried after
them as after a thief.") (Haydock)_...
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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 DRIVEN FROM AMONG [MEN],.... From towns and cities, and all
civil society, as unfit to be among them; not for any good, it may be
observed, but for crimes that they had done, like our felons...
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They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as
[after] a thief;)
Ver. 5. _They were driven forth from among men_] _E corpore,_ saith
Tremellius, out of the body; that is, out of t...
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_They were driven forth from among men_ As unworthy of human society;
and for their beggary and dishonesty, suspected and avoided of all
men; _they cried after them as after a thief_ Giving one anothe...
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They were driven forth from among men, excluded from human society,
(THEY CRIED AFTER THEM AS AFTER A THIEF, such a hue and cry is raised
by the Arab inhabitants of the villages when the vagabonds app...
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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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Normal society does not want these people around, they are expelled as
if they were thieves, "driven away when they approached inhabited
places" _(Strauss p. 295)._...
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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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Giving one another warning of their danger from them....
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Job 30:5 out H1644 (H8792) among H1460 shouted H7321 (H8686) thief
H1590
driven - Genesis 4:1
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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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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:1 Although Job had delivered the truly needy from
their unrighteous oppressors (Job 29:11), those who now mock him are
themselves needy, because of their own actions and foolishness...
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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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Daniel 4:25; Daniel 4:32; Daniel 4:33; Genesis 4:12; Psalms 109:10...