Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 30:17
(m) My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
(m) Meaning sorrow.
(m) My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
(m) Meaning sorrow.
MY BONES ARE PIERCED IN ME - The bones are often represented in the Scriptures as the seat of acute pain; Psalms 6:2; Psalms 22:14; Psalms 31:10;...
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...
MY BONES ARE PIERCED IN ME, &C.— _My bones are pierced through with pain in the night, and my veins have no rest._ Job 30:18. _With great force he layeth hold of my garment, and enfolds me by the coll...
b. His unhappy misery (Job 30:16-23) TEXT 30:16-23 16 AND NOW MY SOUL IS POURED OAT WITHIN ME; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And t...
_AND NOW MY SOUL IS POURED OUT UPON ME; THE DAYS OF AFFLICTION HAVE TAKEN HOLD UPON ME._ Job's outward calamities affect his mind. POURED OUT - in irrepressible complaints (Psalms 42:4; Joshua 7:5)...
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...
ARE PIERCED] by acute pain. SINEWS] render, 'gnawing pains.'...
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...
Job was suffering pain because of his illness. The pain reminded him of clothing that someone cannot remove. So the pain affected Job’s whole body. The pain also reminded Job of a collar. It felt as i...
לַ֗יְלָה עֲ֭צָמַי נִקַּ֣ר מֵ עָלָ֑י וְ֝ עֹרְק
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...
_They that. Heberw, "my sinews take no rest." Septuagint, "are dissolved." (Haydock) --- The worms prey upon me, and I am like one in a raging fever. (Calmet)_...
(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...
MY BONES ARE PIERCED IN ME IN THE NIGHT SEASON,.... Such was the force of his disease, that it pierced and penetrated even into his bones, and the marrow of them; and such the pain that he endured in...
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. Ver. 17. _My bones are pierced in me in the night season_] Sleep is the nurse of nature, and the sweet parenthesis of men's...
_My soul is poured out upon me_ Or within me, as the particle עלי, _gnali_, is elsewhere used. All the strength and powers of my soul are melted, faint, and die away. _My bones are pierced_ Or rather,...
THE UNSPEAKABLE MISERY AND DISAPPOINTMENT WITH WHICH JOB BATTLED...
My bones are pierced in me in the night season, the restless night itself, which increases the pains of every affliction, pierces his bones from his body; AND MY SINEWS TAKE NO REST, literally, "my gn...
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...
"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)...
15-31 Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried...
MY BONES ARE PIERCED: Heb. _It_, to wit, the terror or affliction last mentioned; or, _He_, i.e. God, _hath pierced my bones_. This is no slight and superficial, but a most deep wound, that reacheth t...
Job 30:17 bones H6106 pierced H5365 (H8765) night H3915 pains H6207 (H8802) rest H7901 (H8799)...
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...
_The days of affliction have taken hold upon me._ PHYSICAL PAIN In these verses the patriarch sketches his great corporeal sufferings, his physical anguish. Probably man’s capability of bodily suffe...
_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 38:13; Job 33:19; Job 7:4; Psalms 22:2; Psalms 38:2;...