Bible Commentary

And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. 9 10. Job’s treatment now at the hands of these outcasts. With “spit in my face” comp. ch. Job 17:6. In ch. 24. Job referred to this miserable race With compassion; they had often no doubt excited his pity, and he saw in their … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 30:9”

[They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. 8. The verse reads in close connexion with Job 30:7, Children of fools, yea children of base men, They are scourged out of the land. Children of “base men,” lit. of no name, i. e. base born, they are … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 30:8”

Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. 7. they brayed ] Rather, they bray. were gathered ] Better, are gathered, or perhaps rather, stretch themselves, i. e. fling themselves down. Their cries are like those of the wild ass seeking for food (ch. Job 6:5), and they throw themselves down … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 30:7”

To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks. To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys – The word here rendered cliffs ( aruts) denotes rather horror, or something horrid, and the sense here is, that they dwelt in the horrer of valleys; that is, in … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 30:6”

They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;) 5 6. Such creatures when they approach civilized dwellings are driven forth and pursued with cries as men do a thief. They are driven forth from among men, They cry after them as after a thief, And they must dwell … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 30:5”

Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat. 4. by the bushes ] i. e. beside or among the bushes. The “mallows” or “salt-wort” which they pluck as food is found among the bushes, which cover it from the heat and drought, and under the shadow of which it thrives. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 30:4”

For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 3. The verse reads, With want and hunger they are gaunt, They gnaw the desert, in former time desolate and waste. The first clause refers to the “shriveled” appearance of these outcasts from want; the second to their … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 30:3”

Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished? 2. The verse refers to the fathers ( Job 30:1), and gives the reason why Job did not employ them, or consider them worthy of a treatment equal to that of his dogs they were enfeebled and fallen into … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 30:2”

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. 1. younger than I ] Comp. what was said of the demeanour of the youths in former days, ch. Job 30:8. would have disdained to have set ] … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 30:1”

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners. 25. A concluding picture of the joy which he had in the fellowship of men, and how they recognised his worth and set him as a king among them, and yet how he … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 29:25”