Job 30:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. ”

• Job 30:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me - This was a complaint which Job often made, that he could not get the ear of God; that his prayer was not regarded, and that he could not get his cause...

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• Job 30:20 - 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...

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• Job 30:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  hear . answer.

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• Job 30:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not . I cry unto thee - I am persecuted by man, afflicted with sore disease, and apparently forsaken of God. I stand up...

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• Job 30:20 - 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...

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• Job 30:20 - 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...

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• Job 30:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thou regardest me not. — The Authorised Version understands that the negative of the first clause must be supplied in the second, as is the case in Psalms 9:18 : “The needy shall not always be fo...

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• Job 30:20 - 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...

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• Job 30:20 - 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...

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• Job 30:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 30:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me ,.... Which added greatly to his affliction, that though he cried to the Lord for help and deliverance, yet he turned a deaf ear to him; and though he hear...

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• Job 30:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not]. Ver. 20. I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me ] This was a sore trial, that God should cast him into stra...

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• Job 30:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thou dost not hear me Namely, so as to answer or help me. I stand up Namely, before thee: I pray importunately and continually, as thou requirest; and thou regardest me not Notwithstanding all...

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• Job 30:20 - 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...

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• Job 30:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job Complains of His Affliction. B. C. 1520.       15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursu...

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• Job 30:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thou dost not hear me, to wit, so as to answer or help me. I stand up, or, I stand , to wit, before thee, i.e. I pray, as this phrase signifies, Jeremiah 15:1 , Jeremiah 18:20 , this being a...

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• Job 30:20 - 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...

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• Job 30:20 - 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...

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• Job 30:20 - 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...

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• Job 30:20 - 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...

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• Job 30:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Unspeakable Misery and Disappointment with which Job Battled

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• Job 30:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 19:7 ; Job 27:9 ; Lamentations 3:44 ; Lamentations 3:8 ; Matthew 15:23 ; Psalms 22:2 ; Psalms 80:4 ; Psalms 80:5

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• Job 30:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  I stand — I pray importunately and continually.

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