Job 30

1 Job's honour is turned into extreme contempt;

15 and his prosperity into calamity.

they that are.

19:13-19; 29:8-10; 2Ki 2:23; Isa 3:5

younger than I. Heb. of fewer days than I. whose.

Ps 35:15,16; 69:12; Mr 14:65; 15:17-20; Lu 23:14,18,35,39; Ac 17:5

Tit 1:12

2

solitary. or, dark as the night.

24:13-16

fleeing into.

24:5; Heb 11:38

in former time. Heb. yesternight.

mallows.The Hebrew {malluäch,} in Arabic, {malluch,} and in Syriac {mallucho,} is probably the [Lalima or Lalimos] of the Greeks, and {halimus} of the Romans, which Dioscorides describes as a kind of bramble, without thorns, the leaves of which are boiled and eaten.

juniper roots.The Hebrew {rothem,} in Arabic, {ratim,} and in Spanish, {retama,} most probably signifies the {genista} or broom, which is very abundant in the deserts of Arabia.

for their meat.

2Ki 4:38,39; Am 7:14; Lu 15:16

driven.

Ge 4:12-14; Ps 109:10; Da 4:25,32,33

dwell.

Jud 6:2; 1Sa 22:1,2; Isa 2:19; Re 6:15

caves. Heb. holes.

brayed.

6:5; 11:12; Ge 16:12

the nettles.{Charul} probably denotes some kind of briar or bramble: so Vulgate renders it by {spina} or {sentis,} (Pr 24:31. Zep 2:9.) Celsius and Scheuchzer are inclined to think it the {paliurus,} a shrub growing sometimes to a considerable height in desert places. "One of the inconveniences of the vegetable thickets of Egypt is," says Denon, "that it is difficult to remain in them, as nine tenths of the trees and plants are armed with inexorable thorns, which suffer only an unquiet enjoyment of the shadow which is so constantly desirable."

children.

2Ki 8:18,27; 2Ch 22:3; Ps 49:10-13; Jer 7:18; Mr 6:24

fools.

Pr 1:7,22; 16:22

base men. Heb. men of no name. viler.

40:4; Ps 15:4; Isa 32:6

am I.

17:6; Ps 35:15,16; 44:14; 69:12; La 3:14,63

abhor me.

19:19; 42:6; Ps 88:8; Zec 11:8

flee far.

19:13,14; Ps 88:8; Pr 19:7; Mt 26:56

spare not to spit in my face. Heb. withhold not spittle frommy face.

Nu 12:14; De 25:9; Isa 50:6; Mt 26:67; 27:30

loosed.

12:18,21; 2Sa 16:5-8

let loose.

Ps 35:21; Mt 26:67,68; 27:39-44; Jas 1:26

rise.

19:18; Isa 3:5

they raise up.

19:12

they set forward.

Ps 69:26; Zec 1:15

as a wide.

22:16; Ps 18:4; 69:14,15; Isa 8:7,8

Terrors.

6:4; 7:14; 9:27,28; 10:16; Ps 88:15

soul. Heb. principal one. as a cloud.

Isa 44:22; Ho 6:4; 13:3

my soul.

Ps 22:14; 42:4; Isa 53:12

have taken hold.

Ps 40:12

My bones.

33:19-21; Ps 6:2-6; 38:2-8

in the night season.

7:4; Ps 22:2; Isa 38:13

By the great.

2:7; 7:5; 19:20; Ps 38:5; Isa 1:5,6

cast me.

9:31; Ps 69:1,2; Jer 38:6

dust.

2:8; 42:6; Ge 18:27

I cry.

19:7; 27:9; Ps 22:2; 80:4,5; La 3:8,44; Mt 15:23

become cruel. Heb. turned to be cruel.

7:20,21; 10:14-17; 13:25-28; 16:9-14; 19:6-9; Ps 77:7-9; Jer 30:14

thy strong hand. Heb. the strength of thy hand.

6:9; 23:6; Ps 89:13; 1Pe 5:6

liftest me.

21:18; Ps 1:4; Isa 17:13; Jer 4:11,12; Eze 5:2; Ho 4:19; 13:3

to ride.

Ps 18:10; 104:3

substance. or, wisdom.

the house.

14:5; 21:33; Ge 3:19; 2Sa 14:14; Ec 8:8; 9:5; 12:5-7; Heb 9:27

grave. Heb. heap. they cry.

Jud 5:31; Ps 35:25; Mt 27:39-44

Did not I.

Ps 35:13,14; Jer 13:17; 18:20; Lu 19:41; Joh 11:35; Ro 12:15

in trouble. Heb. hard of day. was.

31:16-21; Ps 12:1; Pr 14:21,31; 17:5; 19:17; 28:8; Isa 58:7,8

Da 4:27; 2Co 9:9

When I looked.

3:25,26; 29:18; Jer 8:15; 14:19; 15:18; Mic 1:12

light.

18:6,18; 23:17; Ps 97:11; Isa 50:10

Ps 22:4; Jer 4:19; 31:20; La 1:20; 2:11

Ps 38:6; 42:9; 43:2; Isa 53:3,4; La 3:1-3

a brother.

17:14; Ps 102:6; Isa 13:21,22; 38:14; Mic 1:8; Mal 1:3

owls. or, ostriches.{Benoth yäânah,} in Arabic, {bintu näâmatin,} not owls, but ostriches, so called from their doleful and hideous noises. "I have often," says Dr. Shaw, "heard them groan as if they were in the greatest agonies."

my skin.

Ps 119:83; La 3:4; 4:8; 5:10

my bones.

Ps 102:3

Ps 137:1-4; Ec 3:4; Isa 21:4; 22:12; 24:7-9; La 5:15; Da 6:18
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