Job 30:9-15
9. (Job 17:6). Strikingly similar to the derision Jesus Christ underwent (La 3:14; Ps 69:12). Here Job returns to the sentiment in Job 30:1. It is to such I am become a song of "derision."
10. in my face—rather, refrain not to spit in deliberate contempt before my face. To spit at all in presence of another is thought in the East insulting, much more so when done to mark "abhorrence." Compare the further insult to Jesus Christ (Isa 50:6; Mt 26:67).
11. He—that is, "God"; antithetical to "they"; English Version here follows the marginal reading (Keri).
my cord—image from a bow unstrung; opposed to Job 29:20. The text (Chetib), "His cord" or "reins" is better; "yea, each lets loose his reins" [UMBREIT].12. youth—rather, a (low) brood. To rise on the right hand is to accuse, as that was the position of the accuser in court (Zec 3:1; Ps 109:6).
push . . . feet—jostle me out of the way (Job 24:4). ways of—that is, their ways of (that is, with a view to my) destruction. Image, as in Job 19:12, from a besieging army throwing up a way of approach for itself to a city.13. Image of an assailed fortress continued. They tear up the path by which succor might reach me.
set forward— (Zec 1:15). they have no helper—Arabic proverb for contemptible persons. Yet even such afflict Job.14. waters—(So 2Sa 5:20). But it is better to retain the image of Job 30:12, 13. "They came [upon me] as through a wide breach," namely, made by the besiegers in the wall of a fortress (Isa 30:13) [MAURER].
in the desolation—"Amidst the crash" of falling masonry, or "with a shout like the crash" of, &c.15. they—terrors.
soul—rather, "my dignity" [UMBREIT]. welfare—prosperity. cloud— (Job 7:9; Isa 44:22).