Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Job 30:8
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.
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.
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...
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....
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...
CHILDREN. sons. VILER THAN THE EARTH. smitten or scourged out of the land....
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....
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
THEY WERE VILER THAN THE EARTH. — Rather, _They are scourged out of the land,_ or _are outcasts from the land. _...
בְּֽנֵי ־נָ֭בָל גַּם ־בְּנֵ֣י בְלִי ־שֵׁ֑ם נ֝
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...
_And not. Hebrew, "viler than the earth." (Protestants)_...
(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...
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...
[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...
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...
_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...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE CONTEMPT HE RECEIVES FROM MEN....
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...
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...
BASE MEN: _ Heb._ men of no name...
"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). _...
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...
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...
Job 30:8 sons H1121 fools H5036 sons H1121 men H8034 scourged H5217 (H8738) land H776 children -...
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...
_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...
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:8 The Hebrew word translated SENSELESS implies that these men are morally responsible for their circumstances (compare “foolish,” Job 2:10; see the description of the fool
_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...
2 Chronicles 22:3; 2 Kings 8:18; 2 Kings 8:27; Isaiah 32:6; Jeremi