Job 30:24

_HOWBEIT HE WILL NOT STRETCH OUT HIS HAND TO THE GRAVE, THOUGH THEY CRY IN HIS DESTRUCTION._ Expressing Job's faith as to the state after death. 'Though one must go to the grave, yet He will no more afflict IN THE RUIN of the body (so the Hebrew for grave х_ Bª`IY_ (H1164)]) there, if one has cried to Him when being destroyed.' 'If, in His destruction х_ BªPIYDOW_ (H6365)] among them х_ LAAHEN_ (H3807a)], there is a cry of prayer' х_ SHUWA`_ (H7769)]. If, in the destruction which God brings upon men, there be prayer offered on their part (Barnes). This accords best with Job's expectation that God would ultimately vindicate him (Job 19:25). [Gesenius takes _ Bª`IY_ (H1164) fro

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 as in a tempest, and is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something with which Job comforts himself, yet it is but a little. He foresees that death will be the end of all his troubles. God's wrath might bring him to death; but his soul would be safe and happy in the world of spirits. If none pity us, yet our God, who corrects, pities us, even as a father pitieth his own children. And let us look more to the things of eternity: then the believer will cease from mourning, and joyfully praise redeeming love....

Verse Job 30:24. _HE WILL NOT STRETCH OUT_ HIS _HAND TO THE GRAVE_] After all that has been said relative to the just _translation_ and true _meaning_ of this verse, is it not evident that it is in the mouth of Job a _consolatory_ reflection? As if he said, Though I suffer _here_, I shall not suffer _hereafter_. Though he add stroke to stroke, so as to destroy my life, yet his displeasure shall not proceed beyond the grave. _THOUGH THEY CRY IN HIS DESTRUCTION._] Mr. _Good_ translates: _Surely_ _there, in its ruin, is freedom_. In the _sepulchre_ there is _freedom_ from calamity, and rest for the weary....

HOWBEIT HE WILL NOT STRETCH OUT HIS HAND TO THE GRAVE - Margin, heap. In our common version this verse conveys no very clear idea, and it is quite evident that our translators despaired of giving it a consistent sense, and attempted merely to translate it literally. The verse has been rendered by every expositor almost in his own way; and though almost no two of them agree, yet it is remarkable that the versions given are all beautiful, and furnish a sense that agrees well with the scope of the passage. The Vulgate renders it, “But not to their consumption wilt thou send forth their hand; and if they fall, thou wilt save them.” The Septuagint,” For O that I could lay violent hands on myself, or beseech another, and he would do it for me Luther renders it, “Yet he shall not stretch out the hand to the charnelhouse, and they shall not cry before his destruction.” Noyes: “When he stretchet...

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 presents himself to us as he is, despised of men (verses 1-10), afflicted of God (verse 11), a prey to vague terrors (verse 15), tortured with bodily pains (verses 17, 18), cast off by God (verses 19, 20), with nothing but death to look for (verses 23-31). The chapter is the most touching in the whole book. JOB 30:1 BUT NOW THEY THAT ARE YOUNGER THAN I HAVE ME IN DERISION. As Job had been speaking last of the honour in which he was once held, he beans his contrast by chewing how at present he is disgraced and derided. Men who are outcasts and solitar

HOWBEIT HE WILL NOT STRETCH OUT [HIS] HAND TO THE GRAVE,.... Or, "verily" h, truly he will not, c. I am well assured he never will, meaning either he never would stretch out his hand to shut up the grave or rather keep it shut, and prevent Job from going down into it; or to open it, and fetch him out of it when in it: God is indeed able to do either of these, and has done it; sometimes, when persons are brought as it were to the gates of death and the grave, he says to them, Return; yea, when they are brought to the dust of death, he prevents them going into the grave, by restoring them to life before carried thither, as the Shunammite's son, 2 Kings 4:32; Jairus's daughter, Mark 5:41; and the widow's son of Nain, even when he was carrying to his grave,...

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 misery. Ah! the bitterness if it--those younger than I have me in derision! Alas! through it all we hear nothing but pride. He scorns those who were so much beneath him. And those who were scourged out of the land, these children of fools and base men, mock him, the former prince among men. “I am become their song; I am a byword to them; they abhor me; they spit in my face.” Then he describes his affliction. “Days of affliction have taken hold upon me--the pains that gnaw me take no rest.” He is in the mire and has become

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 of the description of the outcasts, which we have already met in Job 24:5 f. When we look at the passage apart from Job 30:1, the impression it makes is not one of contempt for their abject condition, but of pity for their misery. Hence the greater part would have been better suited to one of Job's delineations of human wretchedness than to the picture he is painting of his own distress, from which he is diverted at a surprisingly early point (Peake). Duhm, followed by Strahan, treats...

GRAVE. Hebrew. _bi' i_,. mound or tumulus. But others point it _be'i_. a prayer. HIS DESTRUCTION. their calamity....

HOWBEIT, HE WILL NOT STRETCH OUT, &C.— Houbigant renders this verse, _Howbeit death shall not extend his hand to my sepulchre; but if to my dissolution, even that shall be for my salvation._ See his note. Heath reads it differently thus: _Howbeit, he will not stretch forth his hand in its might, though they shout ever so loud when he afflicteth me._ The author, says he, with great elegance, makes death and the grave two persons (see the former verse), who shout at every stroke laid upon the sufferer, as if it brought him nearer to their hands: a shout of triumph, as for a victory gained....