Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then (r) evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
(r) Instead of comforting they mocked me.
When I looked for good, then (r) evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
(r) Instead of comforting they mocked me.
WHEN I LOOKED FOR GOOD - When I supposed that respect would be shown me; or when I looked forward to an honored old age. I expected to be made happy and prosperous through life, as the result of my up...
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...
DARKNESS. Hebrew. _ophel_. See note on Job 3:6....
WHEN I LOOKED FOR GOOD, &C.— See the note on chap. Job 3:25....
c. The disappointment of all his hopes (Job 30:24-31) TEXT 30:24-31 24 HOWBEIT DOTH NOT ONE STRETCH OUT THE HAND IN HIS FALL: Or in his calamity therefore cry for help? 25 Did not I weep for him t...
_WHEN I LOOKED FOR GOOD, THEN EVIL CAME UNTO ME: AND WHEN I WAITED FOR LIGHT, THERE CAME DARKNESS._ I may be allowed to crave help, seeing that "when I looked for good (on account of my piety and cha...
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, 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 did not deserve these terrible troubles. Good people do not always have good lives....
WHEN I LOOKED FOR GOOD. — Before, in Job 3:25, he had spoken as one who did not wish to be the _fool_ of prosperity, and so overtaken unawares by calamity, and who therefore looked at things on the da...
כִּ֤י טֹ֣וב קִ֭וִּיתִי וַ יָּ֣בֹא רָ֑ע וַֽ
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...
(19) He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. (20) I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. (21) Thou art become cruel to me: with...
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...
WHEN I LOOKED FOR GOOD,.... As he thought he might reasonably expect it, since he had shown such a sympathizing spirit to persons in trouble, and such pity and mercy to the poor: in the time of his pr...
When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. Ver. 26. _When I looked for good_] According to that general rule, and the common course of God's p...
_Did not I weep for him that was in trouble_ Have I now judgment without mercy, because I afforded no mercy or pity to others in misery? No; my conscience acquits me from this inhumanity: I did mourn...
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me, this being another reason why his craving for help should go unchallenged; AND WHEN I WAITED FOR LIGHT, THERE CAME DARKNESS, he had nothing but misfortu...
THE UNSPEAKABLE MISERY AND DISAPPOINTMENT WITH WHICH JOB BATTLED...
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...
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....
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...
Instead of the return of the like pity to me, which I might justly challenge and expect whensoever I should stand in need of it, I meet with a sad disappointment, and my pity is recompensed with other...
Job 30:26 looked H6960 (H8765) good H2896 evil H7451 came H935 (H8799) waited H3176 (H8762) light...
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 30:24 Job pictures himself as one of those whose cries for HELP he used to answer (vv. Job 30:24). In his own distress he has only found...
_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 50:10; Jeremiah 14:19; Jeremiah 15:18; Jeremiah 8:15; Job 18:
Upon me — Yet trouble came upon myself, when I expected it not....