“ My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. ”
My bones are pierced in me - The bones are often represented in the Scriptures as the seat of acute pain; Psalms 6:2 ; Psalms 22:14 ; Psalms 31:10 ; Psalms 38:3 ; Psalms 42:10 ; Proverbs 14...
(m) My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. (m) Meaning sorrow.
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...
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
My bones are pierced in me, &c.— My bones are pierced through with pain in the night, and my veins have no rest. Job 30:18 . With great force he layeth hold of my garment, and enfolds me by...
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. Job's outward calamities affect his mind. Poured out - in irrepressible complaints ( Psalms 42:4 ; J...
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...
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...
My bones are pierced in me in the night season ,.... Such was the force of his disease, that it pierced and penetrated even into his bones, and the marrow of them; and such the pain that he endured...
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. Ver. 17. My bones are pierced in me in the night season ] Sleep is the nurse of nature, and the sweet parenthesis of men...
My soul is poured out upon me Or within me, as the particle עלי, gnali , is elsewhere used. All the strength and powers of my soul are melted, faint, and die away. My bones are pierced Or rather...
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 Complains of His Affliction. B. C. 1520. 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursu...
My bones are pierced: Heb. It , to wit, the terror or affliction last mentioned; or, He , i.e. God, hath pierced my bones . This is no slight and superficial, but a most deep wound, that reachet...
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...
The days of affliction have taken hold upon me. Physical pain In these verses the patriarch sketches his great corporeal sufferings, his physical anguish. Probably man’s capability of bodily su...
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...
The Unspeakable Misery and Disappointment with which Job Battled
Isaiah 38:13 ; Job 33:19-21 ; Job 7:4 ; Psalms 22:2 ; Psalms 38:2-8 ; Psalms 6:2-6