Job 30:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. ”

Job 30:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death - This is the language of despair. Occasionally Job seems to have had an assurance that his calamities would pass by, and that God would show himself t...
Job 30:23 - 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 30:23 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 480 THE CERTAINTY OF DEATH Job 30:23 . I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living . WE cannot certainly know the ultimate intentions of Provid...
Job 30:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. Thou wilt bring me to death - This must be the issue of my present affliction: to God alone it is possibl...
Job 30:23 - 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 30:23 - 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 30:23 - 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 30:23 - 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 30:23 - 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 30:23 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE HOUSE APPOINTED FOR ALL LIVING ‘For I know that Thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.’ Job 30:23 I. The reflections suggested. —( a ) Death and the gra...
Job 30:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death ,.... Quickly and by the present affliction upon him; he was assured, as he thought, that this was the view and design of God in this providence, unde...
Job 30:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living. Ver. 23. For I know that thou wilt bring me to death ] Such hard thoughts had Job of God, and such hea...
Job 30:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou liftest me up to the wind Thou exposest me to all sorts of storms and calamities, so that I am like chaff or stubble lifted up to the wind, and violently tossed hither and thither in the air....
Job 30:23 - 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 30:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job Complains of His Affliction. B. C. 1520. 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursu...
Job 30:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I see nothing will satisfy thee but my death, which thou art bringing upon me in a lingering and dismal manner. To the house appointed for all living; to the grave, to which all living men are comi...
Job 30:23 - 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 30:23 - 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 30:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

To the house appointed for all living. The house appointed for all living What were the definite grounds on which Job formed this conclusion? 1. What he saw around him on every side. 2. J...
Job 30:23 - 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 30:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Unspeakable Misery and Disappointment with which Job Battled
Job 30:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 14:14 ; Ecclesiastes 12:5-7 ; Ecclesiastes 8:8 ; Ecclesiastes 9:5 ; Genesis 3:19 ; Hebrews 9:27 ; Job 14:5 ; Job 21:33
Job 30:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

House appointed — The grave is a narrow, dark, cold house, but there we shall rest and be safe. It is our home, for it is our mother's lap, and in it we are gathered to our fathers. It is an house...

Job 30:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 30:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:23 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Job 30:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 30:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 30:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 30:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 30:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 30:23 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Job 30:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 30:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 30:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 30:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 30:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 30:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 30:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 30:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 30:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 30:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes