Job 30:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou art becomee cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. ”

Job 30:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou art become cruel to me - Margin, turned to be. This language, applied to God, seems to be harsh and irreverent, and it may well be inquired whether the word cruel does not express an idea wh...
Job 30:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Thou art become (o) cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. (o) He does not speak this way to accuse God, but to declare the vehemency of his affliction, by which he was...
Job 30:21 - 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 30:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. Thou art become cruel to me - Thou appearest to treat me with cruelty. I cry for mercy, trust in thy goodness, and...
Job 30:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Thou art become cruel to me, &c.— This appears to be one of the most exceptionable passages in all Job's speeches. There seems to be a great want of decency, or of delicacy at least, in the exp...
Job 30:21 - 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 30:21 - 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 30:21 - 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 30:21 - 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 30:21 - 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...
Job 30:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou art become cruel to me ,.... Or "turned", or "changed" g, to be cruel to me. Job suggests that God had been kind and gracious to him, both in a way of providence, and in showing special love an...
Job 30:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. Ver. 21. Thou art become cruel to me ] Mutatus es mihi in tyrannum, thou art turned tyrant towards me, so Bren...
Job 30:21 - 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...
Job 30:21 - 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 30:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job Complains of His Affliction. B. C. 1520. 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursu...
Job 30:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Become cruel, Heb. turned to be cruel ; as if thou hadst changed thy very nature, which is kind, and merciful, and gracious; and such thou hast been formerly in thy carriage to me; but now thou ar...
Job 30:21 - 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 30:21 - 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 30:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

Thou art become cruel to me. Job’s grievance against God He says that God, who formerly had been kind to him, was now become cruel in His actings and dispensations toward him; and whereas He wa...
Job 30:21 - 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 30:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Unspeakable Misery and Disappointment with which Job Battled
Job 30:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 5:6 ; Jeremiah 30:14 ; Job 10:14-17 ; Job 13:25-28 ; Job 16:9-14 ; Job 19:6-9 ; Job 23:6 ; Job 6:9 ; Job 7:20 ; Job 7:21 ; Psalms 77:7-9 ; Psalms 89:13
Job 30:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Turned — As if thou hadst changed thy very nature, which is kind, and merciful, and gracious.

Job 30:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 30:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 30:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 30:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 30:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 30:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 30:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 30:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 30:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 30:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 30:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 30:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 30:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 30:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 30:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 30:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 30:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 30:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes