Job 30:6

_TO DWELL IN THE CLIFFS OF THE VALLEYS, IN CAVES OF THE EARTH, AND IN THE ROCKS._ _ TO DWELL IN THE CLIFFS OF THE VALLEYS, IN CAVES OF THE EARTH, AND IN THE ROCKS._ They are forced TO DWELL IN THE CLIFFS OF THE VALLEYS - rather, 'in the gloomy (literally, gloom of) valleys,' or wadys х_ BA`ªRUWTS_ (H6178) _ NªCHAALIYM_ (H5158)]. To dwell in valleys is in the East a mark of wretchedness The Troglodytes, parts of Arabia, live in such dwellings as caves, etc....

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 be put in it! We should not be cast down if we are despised, reviled, and hated by wicked men. We should look to Jesus, who endured the contradiction of sinners....

Verse Job 30:6. _TO DWELL IN THE CLIFFS OF THE VALLEYS_] They were obliged to take shelter in the most dangerous, out-of-the-way, and unfrequented places. This is the meaning....

TO DWELL IN THE CLIFFS OF THE VALLEYS - The word here rendered “cliffs” (ערוץ _‛__ârûts_) denotes rather “horror,” or something “horrid,” and the sense here is, that they dwelt in “the horrer of valleys;” that is, in horrid valleys. The idea is that of deep and frightful glens, where wild beasts ranged, far from the abodes of men, and surrounded by frightful wastes. The word rendered “valleys” (נחל _nachal_) means properly a brook, stream, water-course - what is now called a wady; a place where the winter torrents run, but which is usually dry in summer; see the notes at Job 6:15. IN CAVES OF THE EARTH - Margin, as in Hebrew “holes.” Septuagint “Whose houses are - πρῶγλαι πετρῶν _trōglai_...

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

TO DWELL IN THE CLIFFS OF THE VALLEYS,.... Or "brooks" l, in such hollow places as were made by floods and streams of waters: [IN] CAVES OF THE EARTH, AND [IN] THE ROCKS; where they betook themselves for fear of men, and through shame, being naked and miserable not fit to be seen: Job has respect to the Horites and Troglodytes, his neighbours, who dwelt in such places chiefly. l נחלים "torrentium", Tigurine version, Pagninus, Montanus, c....

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...

CLIFFS.. ravines; or, most dreadful ravines....

Description of this wretched class of outcasts. The _tenses_should all be put in the present. The race of people referred to appears to be the same as that in ch. 24....