“ They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. ”
They mar my path - They break up all my plans. Perhaps here, also, the image is taken from war, and Job may represent himself as on a line of march, and he says that this rabble comes and breaks...
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no (i) helper. (i) They need no one to help them.
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 30:2-8 as a misplaced s...
they have no helper . they derive no help or benefit from it.
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. They mar my path - They destroy the way-marks, so that there is no safety in travelling through the deserts, the guide-posts and w...
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. Image of an assailed fortress continued. They tear up the path by which succour might reach me. Set forward - in calami...
Job's Present Misery Job bitterly contrasts his present with his past condition, as described in Job 29 . It must be borne in mind that Job was now outcast and beggared. 1-8. Job complains tha...
They have no helper — i.e., probably without deriving therefrom any help or advantage themselves.
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job...
Immediately Job passed to the description of his present condition, which is all the more startling as it stands in contrast with what he had said concerning the past. He first described the base who...
(1) В¶ 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. (2) Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit...
They mar my path ,.... Hindered him in the exercise of religious duties; would not suffer him to attend the ways and worship of God, or to walk in the paths of holiness and righteousness; or they re...
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. Ver. 13. They mar my paths ] That is, all my studies and endeavours; they obstruct all passages whereby I might hope for help,...
They mar my path Or, rather, dig up my path. As I am in great misery, so they endeavour to stop all my ways out of it, and to frustrate all my counsels and methods for obtaining relief and comfor...
MOCKED BY HIS INFERIORS (vv.1-8) What a contrast was Job's condition now! Prominent men of dignity had once shown Job every respect, but now young men of what might be considered the lowest clas...
Job's Humbled Condition. B. C. 1520. 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in...
As I am in great misery, so they endeavour to stop all my ways out of it, and to frustrate all my counsels and courses of obtaining relief or comfort. And although Job had no hopes of a temporal deli...
THE CONTRAST.—JOB’S SOLILOQUY, CONTINUED With his former state of happiness and honour Job now contrasts his present misery and degradation. His object as well to show the grounds he has for com...
Job 30:1 . The dogs of my flock. Job does not say this through pride, for he owns that the slave and himself were formed by the same hand: Job 31:15 . He says it rather with a view to describe th...
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision. Job’s social disabilities Man’s happiness as a social being is greatly dependent upon the kind feeling and respect which is shown to hi...
EXPOSITION Job 30:1-18 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, Jo...
Job Complains of the Contempt he Receives from Men.
Psalms 69:26 ; Zechariah 1:15
Mar — As I am in great misery, so they endeavour to stop all my ways out of it. Set forward — Increasing it by their invectives, and censures. Even they — Who are themselves in a forlorn and misera...