Job 30:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. ”

Job 30:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They came upon me as a wide breaking-in of waters - The Hebrew here is simply, “Like a wide breach they came,” and the reference may be, not to an inundation, as our translators supposed, but to...
Job 30:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the (k) desolation they rolled themselves [upon me]. (k) By my calamity they took an opportunity against me.
Job 30:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Job 30:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters : in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me . They came upon me as a wide breaking in - They storm me on every side. In the desolation th...
Job 30:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

They came upon me, &c.— They come on, as to a wide breach; they roll themselves on against me, like desolation.
Job 30:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. Waters - (so 2 Samuel 5:20 ). But it is better to retain the image of Job 30:12-13 . "Th...
Job 30:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Job 30:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

As a wide breaking in of waters. — Or, as through a wide breach they come. “In the midst of the crash they roll themselves upon me;” or, “instead of a tempest” ( i.e., like a tempest) “they...
Job 30:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Job 30:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Job 30:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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...
Job 30:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters] ,.... As when a wide breach is made in the banks of a river, or of the sea, the waters rush through in great abundance, with great rapidity and...
Job 30:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me]. Ver. 14. They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters ] Quasi irruptione lata invad...
Job 30:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They came as a wide breaking in of waters As fiercely and violently as a river doth when a great breach is made in the bank which kept it in. Hebrew, כפרצ רחב, cheperetz rachab, as at a wide breac...
Job 30:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 30:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Humbled Condition. B. C. 1520. 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in...
Job 30:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

As a wide breaking in of waters; as fiercely and violently as a river doth when a great breach is made in the bank which kept it in. Heb. as at a wide breach ; as a besieging army, having made a b...
Job 30:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 30:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Job 30:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Job 30:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 30:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Complains of the Contempt he Receives from Men.
Job 30:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 8:7 ; Isaiah 8:8 ; Job 22:16 ; Psalms 18:4 ; Psalms 69:14 ; Psalms 69:15
Job 30:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Waste place — In the waste place; in that part of the bank which was broken down. They rolled — As the waters, come rolling in at the breach.

Job 30:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 30:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 30:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 30:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 30:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 30:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 30:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 30:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 30:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 30:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 30:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 30:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 30:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 30:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 30:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 30:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 30:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 30:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 30:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes