"BUT NOW THOSE YOUNGER THAN. MOCK ME": Young people, rather than respecting him, ridiculed and made fun of him, compare with Job 29:8. "WHOSE FATHERS. DISDAINED TO PUT WITH THE DOGS OF MY FLOCK": "Worst of all, his tormentators are the young men upon whom all the rest of the society looks down with... [ Continue Reading ]
Such people are useless and weak, unfit and unable to do hard work, that is, unwilling to work hard. It could be that Job had actually tried hiring some of these men and found them absolutely useless. No physical stamina.... [ Continue Reading ]
They are thin from not having enough to eat and they act like animals "gnawing the ground in an effort to get food" _(Zuck p. 130)._... [ Continue Reading ]
The word "mallow" refers to. plant with sour-tasting leaves that grew in salty marshes and the broom-shrub is. plant that only the desperate would seek to eat for food, especially the roots. "Thin, hungry and wandering about in the desert" _(Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 752). _... [ Continue Reading ]
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)._... [ Continue Reading ]
"Since they are not welcome in any community, they live in the dreadful ravines among the rocks. Job bitterly relates how even these people taunt him, now that he is also an outcast living on. dunghill" _(p. 295)._ Even these people think they are better than me!... [ Continue Reading ]
For warmth they huddle together under desert brush.... [ Continue Reading ]
"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). _ "They were scourged from the land": That is, they are the scum of society. __... [ Continue Reading ]
"AND NOW. HAVE BECOME THEIR TAUNT,. HAVE EVEN BECOME. BYWORD TO THEM": "This scum of society-a brood without even names-considered Job scum" _(Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 752)._... [ Continue Reading ]
Even the low-life do not want to associate with Job, and they even spit upon him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Job considered such insults from the scum of the earth to be an arrow from God, and the expression that they "have cast off the bridle before me" seems to mean that such people had cast off all restraint. They cursed him, spat upon him and might have even physically abused him.... [ Continue Reading ]
This could mean that they knocked Job to the ground, blocked his paths, sought to harass and intimidate him.... [ Continue Reading ]
"THEY PROFIT FROM MY DESTRUCTION": It could be that they were stealing whatever Job might have left, or they were making the most of this chance to humiliate and hurt Job who had stood for everything they had despised, i.e., honesty, hard work, diligence, sacrifice and so on.... [ Continue Reading ]
Job certainly no longer felt safe. He was surrounded by terrors, and the thought of what this rabble might do to him. He has lost all respect and safety. "The picture is strikingly violent. Job's princely dignity, once so widely acknowledged is now blowing in the wind" _(Strauss p. 297)._ The imager... [ Continue Reading ]
"His soul can absorb no more emotional strain. His suffering has drained him of all zest for life" _(Strauss p. 298)._ Compare with Psalms 22:14; Job 42:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
"He was in the grip of suffering for days on end, and at night his suffering was as intense as if swords had pierced to his very bones. The bones were considered the place of acute pain (Psalms 42:10) His gnawing pain was continuous" _(Zuck p. 131)._... [ Continue Reading ]
Either Job is saying that his running sores had discolored his garment or that his clothing was twisted by his agonized tossing and turning at night, or that God had grabbed him as if by the garment and had thrown him to the ground.... [ Continue Reading ]
God had cast him into the mire or the mud, Job felt that God was behind this humiliation.... [ Continue Reading ]
"I CRY OUT TO YOU FOR HELP": Added to both his social rejection and physical pain, Job feels that God had abandoned him. He had cried to God for help, but God had ignored his pleas, Job had even "stood up" so he could grab God's attention, but God had (seemingly) turned His back. "His effort to get... [ Continue Reading ]
Job feels that God has not merely been passively absent but actively cruel to him as well.... [ Continue Reading ]
God, who had tossed him into the mud, had now tossed him helplessly into the middle of. storm.... [ Continue Reading ]
"Job sensed that God would eventually end his life in death. 'The house of the meeting for all living' to which God would bring him means death, the appointed place where all the living eventually meet" _(p. 132). _... [ Continue Reading ]
Here Job bemoans the fact that in the midst of all this suffering, he had been forsaken by his friends as well. Job had cried out for help, only to be accused of some secret sin and being. hypocrite.... [ Continue Reading ]
When Job had been prosperous he had been sympathetic to the less fortunate, he had been very compassionate and had always extended sympathy to any in distress. Yet now that Job's life is hard, no one grieves for him. Where is the helping hand? See Romans 12:15; 1 Peter 3:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
In this verse the terms "good" and "light" may stand for the help and compassion that Job was expecting from his friends but did not receive.... [ Continue Reading ]
Inwardly, Job was in emotional turmoil, literally he was "boiling" on the inside. He was unable to relax or come to terms with any of this, and only affliction confronted him day after day.... [ Continue Reading ]
Each new morning does not bring any rest, comfort, or change. The word "assembly" may infer that Job actually cried out in public.... [ Continue Reading ]
"Jackals live in the desert, and the only place that Job is welcome is there. The jackals are also known for their plaintive cry, with which he also identifies. The ostrich, too, is known for its hissing, cackling, and doleful moaning. The mournful howl of these animals still disturbs the desert nig... [ Continue Reading ]
_ _ Job 30:30 This blackened skin may be due to his disease, and on the inside he was burning with. fever.... [ Continue Reading ]
"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 longer found enjoyment in any of this.... [ Continue Reading ]