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Verse Job 30:13. _THEY MAR MY PATH_] They destroy the _way-marks_, so
that there is no safety in travelling through the deserts, the
_guide-posts_ and _way-marks_ being gone.
These may be an allusio...
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THEY MAR MY PATH - They break up all my plans. Perhaps here, also, the
image is taken from war, and Job may represent himself as on a line of
march, and he says that this rabble comes and breaks up hi...
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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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THEY HAVE NO HELPER. they derive no help or benefit from it....
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Further description of the outrageous insults of these base outcasts....
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_They mar my path_ Or, THEY BREAK UP my path. The reference can hardly
be to the path or way leading to the besieged place (Job 30:12), so
that the approach of succour is cut off; if the figure be con...
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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 MAR MY PATH, THEY SET FORWARD MY CALAMITY, THEY HAVE NO HELPER._
Image of an assailed fortress continued. They tear up the path by
which succour might reach me.
SET FORWARD - in calamity (Zec...
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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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THEY HAVE NO HELPER] Perhaps we should read, 'There is none to check
them.'...
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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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Job watched the youths as they talked. And Job thought that they were
making plans to attack him. Job felt too ill to avoid them.
Of course, a city cannot move when its enemies attack. So Job thought...
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נָתְס֗וּ נְֽתִיבָ֫תִ֥י לְ הַוָּתִ֥י
יֹעִ֑ילוּ לֹ֖א...
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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 mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no (i)
helper.
(i) They need no one to help them....
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_Help them, or me. (Calmet) Septuagint, "they took off my garment."
(Haydock) --- Job seemed to be besieged, and could not escape.
(Calmet)_...
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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 MAR MY PATH,.... Hindered him in the exercise of religious
duties; would not suffer him to attend the ways and worship of God, or
to walk in the paths of holiness and righteousness; or they repro...
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They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
Ver. 13. _They mar my paths_] That is, all my studies and endeavours;
they obstruct all passages whereby I might hope for help, as...
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_They mar my path_ Or, rather, _dig up my path._ As I am in great
misery, so they endeavour to stop all my ways out of it, and to
frustrate all my counsels and methods for obtaining relief and
comfort...
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They mar my path, tearing it down, making it impassable; THEY SET
FORWARD MY CALAMITY, promoting it, helping it along as it speeds to
Job's destruction; THEY HAVE NO HELPER, there is no helper against...
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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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"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...
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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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As I am in great misery, so they endeavour to stop all my ways out of
it, and to frustrate all my counsels and courses of obtaining relief
or comfort. And although Job had no hopes of a temporal deliv...
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Job 30:13 break H5420 (H8804) path H5410 promote H3276 (H8686)
calamity H1942 (H8675) H1962 helper
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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 30:9 Job describes his three friends as casting off
any RESTRAINT, as if they were taking advantage of an easy military
conquest (THROUGH A WIDE BREACH)....
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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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Psalms 69:26; Zechariah 1:15...
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Mar — As I am in great misery, so they endeavour to stop all my ways
out of it. Set forward — Increasing it by their invectives, and
censures. Even they — Who are themselves in a forlorn and miserable...