“ He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. ”
He hath cast me into the mire - That is, God has done it. In this book the name of God is often understood where the speaker seems to avoid it, in order that it may not be needlessly repeated. On...
(n) He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. (n) That is, God has brought me into contempt.
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...
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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...
He hath cast me into the mire. — He now turns more directly to God, having in Job 30:16 turned from man to his own condition — dust and ashes. This latter phrase is used but three times in Scri...
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...
(19) He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. (20) I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. (21) Thou art become cruel to me: with...
He hath cast me into the mire ,.... As Jeremiah was literally; here it is to be understood in a figurative sense; not of the mire of sin, into which God casts none, men fall into it of themselves, b...
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. Ver. 19. He hath cast me into the mire ] My disease hath, so Vatablus senseth it. Others, God hath as it were trampled me to dir...
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...
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...
He hath made me contemptible and filthy, and loathsome for my sores, my whole body being a kind of quagmire, in regard of the filth breaking forth in all its parts; and I am become like dust and ash...
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
Genesis 18:27 ; Jeremiah 38:6 ; Job 2:8 ; Job 42:6 ; Job 9:31 ; Psalms 69:1 ; Psalms 69:2