Job 30:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. ”

Job 30:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By the great force of my disease - The words “of my disease” are not in the Hebrew. The usual interpretation of the passage is, that in consequence of the foul and offensive nature of his malady,...
Job 30:18 - 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 30:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

collar: the opening in the tunic for the neck.
Job 30:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. Is my garment changed - There seem to be here plain allusions to the effect of his cruel diseas...
Job 30:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 30:18 - 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 30:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

My garment changed. — Some render “By His ( i.e., God’s) great power the garment (of my skin) is disfigured;” and others, “With great effort must my garment be changed because of the sores to whic...
Job 30:18 - 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 30:18 - 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 30:18 - 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 30:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed ,.... Either the colour of it, through the purulent matter from his ulcers running down upon it, or penetrating through it; or by reason of i...
Job 30:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. Ver. 18. By the great force of my disease is my garment changed ] sc. Sudore, cruore, san...
Job 30:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

By the great force of my disease , &c. The words, of my disease , are not in the Hebrew, neither do they seem to be rightly supplied, but rather to obscure the sense of the clause, which, witho...
Job 30:18 - 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 30:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job Complains of His Affliction. B. C. 1520. 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursu...
Job 30:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

My disease is so strong and prevalent, that it breaks forth every where in my body, in such plenty of purulent and filthy matter, that it infects and discolours my very garments. Others, By the grea...
Job 30:18 - 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 30:18 - 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 30:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Job 30:18 - 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 30:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Unspeakable Misery and Disappointment with which Job Battled
Job 30:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 1:5 ; Isaiah 1:6 ; Job 19:20 ; Job 2:7 ; Job 7:5 ; Psalms 38:5

Job 30:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 30:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 30:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 30:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 30:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 30:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 30:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 30:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 30:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 30:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 30:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 30:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 30:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 30:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 30:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 30:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 30:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge