Job 30:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? ”

Job 30:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Did not I weep ... - Job here appeals to his former life, and says that it had been a characteristic of his life to manifest compassion to the afflicted and the poor. His object in doing this is,...
Job 30:25 - 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 30:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Did not I.! Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. poor . helpless. Hebrew. 'ebyon . See note on Proverbs 6:11 ,
Job 30:25 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 481 JOB’S COMPASSION FOR THE POOR Job 30:25 . Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor? IN the midst of any heavy calamities, a recollection...
Job 30:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? - Mr. Good translates much nearer the sense of the original, לקשה יום l...
Job 30:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? May I not be allowed to complain of my calamity, and beg relief, seeing that I myself sympathized with those "...
Job 30:25 - 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 30:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Did not I weep for him? — Job declares that he has not withheld that sympathy with sorrow and suffering for which he himself has asked in vain.
Job 30:25 - 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 30:25 - 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 30:25 - 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 30:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble ?.... In outward trouble, whether personal in his own body, or in his family, or in his worldly affairs, or from wicked men, the men of the world; or in in...
Job 30:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor? Ver. 25. Did I not weep for him that was in trouble? ] Rursum, per pathos, excandescit (Mercer). Here Job wond...
Job 30:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble Have I now judgment without mercy, because I afforded no mercy or pity to others in misery? No; my conscience acquits me from this inhumanity: I did mourn...
Job 30:25 - 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 30:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job Complains of His Affliction. B. C. 1520. 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursu...
Job 30:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Whence is it that neither God nor man show any compassion to me, but both conspire to afflict me, and increase my torments? Doth God now mete out to me the same measure which I meted out to others? H...
Job 30:25 - 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 30:25 - 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 30:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

Did I not weep for him that was in trouble. Tears for the oppressed By noticing the care with which Job throws back the insinuation of Eliphaz, how much he valued the character of charity, and...
Job 30:25 - 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 30:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Unspeakable Misery and Disappointment with which Job Battled
Job 30:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 9:9 ; Daniel 4:27 ; Isaiah 58:7 ; Isaiah 58:8 ; Jeremiah 13:17 ; Jeremiah 18:20 ; Job 31:16-21 ; John 11:35 ; Luke 19:41 ; Proverbs 14:21 ; Proverbs 14:31 ; Proverbs 17:5 ;...
Job 30:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Did not I — Have I now judgment without mercy, because I afforded no mercy to others in misery? No; my conscience acquits me from this inhumanity: I did mourn over others in their miseries.

Job 30:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 30:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 30:25 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Job 30:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 30:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 30:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 30:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 30:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 30:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 30:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 30:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 30:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 30:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 30:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 30:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 30:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 30:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 30:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 30:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes