Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 30:12
Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the (h) ways of their destruction.
(h) That is, they sought by all means how they might destroy me.
Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the (h) ways of their destruction.
(h) That is, they sought by all means how they might destroy me.
Verse Job 30:12. _UPON_ MY _RIGHT_ HAND _RISE THE YOUTH_] The word פרחח _pirchach_, which we translate _youth_, signifies properly _buds_, or the _buttons_ of _trees_. Mr. _Good_ has _younglings_. _Yo...
UPON MY RIGHT HAND RISE THE YOUTH - The right hand is the place of honor, and therefore it was felt to be a greater insult that they should occupy even that place. The word rendered “youth” (פרחח _pir...
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...
Further description of the outrageous insults of these base outcasts....
This verse reads, Upon the right hand riseth up a (low) brood, They push away my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction. By "pushing away" his feet, appears to be meant thrust...
UPON MY RIGHT HAND RISE THE YOUTH— _On my right hand their brood start up: they trip up my heels. Their troops of destruction throw up an intrenchment round me:_ Heath: who, instead of, _they set forw...
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...
_UPON MY RIGHT HAND RISE THE YOUTH; THEY PUSH AWAY MY FEET, AND THEY RAISE UP AGAINST ME THE WAYS OF THEIR DESTRUCTION._ Youth - rather, a (low) brood х_ PIRCHACH_ (H6526)]. To rise on the right hand...
Conder suggests, 'The brood (of boys) stand upon my right hand (an insult, for the place of honour was on the right hand). They trip up my feet and jostle me on the dangerous paths.' They no longer ma...
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...
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...
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...
THE YOUTH — _i.e._, the young brood, rabble....
עַל ־יָמִין֮ פִּרְחַ֪ח יָ֫ק֥וּמוּ רַגְלַ֥י שִׁלֵּ֑חוּ...
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...
Forthwith. Hebrew pirchach seems to be translated (Haydock) by three terms, rising, calamities, and forthwith, as it denotes "a bud" which suddenly appears. (Calmet) --- Septuagint Greek: Blaston, "On...
(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...
UPON [MY] RIGHT [HAND] RISE THE YOUTH,.... "Springeth", as Mr. Broughton translates the word; such as were just sprung into being, as it were; the word n seems to have the signification of young birds...
Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. Ver. 12. _Upon the right hand rise the youth_] Broughton readeth, The spring...
_Upon my right hand_ The place of adversaries or accusers in courts of justice, Psalms 109:6; Zechariah 3:1. Or this may be observed to show their boldness and contempt of him, in that they dared to p...
Upon my right hand rise the youth, a brood of diseases and sufferings, or, the brood of young rascals who were now mocking him; THEY PUSH AWAY MY FEET, leaving him no foothold, no place to stand on, A...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE CONTEMPT HE RECEIVES FROM MEN....
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...
This could mean that they knocked Job to the ground, blocked his paths, sought to harass and intimidate him....
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...
UPON MY RIGHT HAND. This circumstance is noted, either because this was the place of adversaries or accusers in courts of justice, PSALMS 109:6 MALACHI 3:1; or to show their boldness and contempt of h...
Job 30:12 right H3225 rabble H6526 arises H6965 (H8799) push H7971 (H8765) feet H7272 raise H5549
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...
_Upon my right hand rise the youth._ THE PROSPECTS OF LIFE I. The prospects of life are generally bright. Young people are full of buoyancy, animal spirits, ardent desire, sanguine expectation, high...
_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 30:9 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)....
_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...
Isaiah 3:5; Job 19:12; Job 19:18...
Right hand — This was the place of adversaries or accusers in courts of justice. The youth — Heb. young striplings, who formerly hid themselves from my presence, Job 29:8. Push — Metaphorically, they...