“ My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. ”
My bowels boiled - Or rather, My bowels boil - for he refers to his present circumstances, and not to the past. It is clear that by this phrase he designs to describe deep affliction. The bowels,...
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...
prevented . came on.
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. My bowels boiled - This alludes to the strong commotion in the bowels which every humane person feels at the sight of one in mis...
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. Bowels - regarded as the seat of deep feeling ( Isaiah 16:11 ). Boiled - violently heated and agitated. Prevented...
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...
My bowels boiled. — The sense is better expressed by the present, “My bowels boil, and rest not. Days of affliction have overtaken me unawares.” (See last verse.)
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...
My bowels boiled, and rested not ,.... All contained within him, his heart, lungs, and liver, in a literal sense, through a violent fever burning within him; or figuratively, being under great distr...
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. Ver. 27. My bowels boiled, and rested not ] Being tossed and tumbled with continual boiling and bubbling, rumbling and making...
My bowels boiled Namely, with the violence of my disorder; and rested not Hebrew, ולא דמו, velo damu , and were not silent. The days of affliction prevented me Came upon me suddenly and unexpe...
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...
My inward parts boiled without ceasing. The bowels are the seat of passion and of compassion; and therefore this may be understood, either, 1. Of his compassionate and deep sense of others miseries...
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...
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
Jeremiah 31:20 ; Jeremiah 4:19 ; Lamentations 1:20 ; Lamentations 2:11 ; Psalms 22:4
Affliction — Came upon me suddenly, and unexpectedly, when I promised myself peace and prosperity.