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I am a brother to dragons - That is, my loud complaints and cries resemble the doleful screams of wild animals, or of the most frightful monsters. The word “brother” is often used in this sense,...
I am a brother to (u) dragons, and a companion to owls. (u) I am like the wild beasts that desire solitary places.
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...
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. I am a brother to dragons - By my mournful and continual cry I resemble תנים tannim, the jackals or hyenas. And a companion to owls - בנות יענה be...
I am a brother to dragons, &c.— I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches. See Bochart Hieroz. lib. 2: cap. 14. The jackal and the female ostrich are both remarkable for the...
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. Dragons ... owls - rather, jackals, ostriches, both of which utter dismal screams ( Micah 1:8 ); in which respect, as also in their living...
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...
Dragons and owls are, according to some moderns, jackals and ostriches.
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...
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. Or ostriches, as the Targum, Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions; either he was obliged to dwell with such persons as were com...
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. Ver. 29. I am a brother to dragons, &c. ] i.e. I utter a very lamentable voice, or rather noise, like dragons, which sucking the elephant'...
I am a brother By imitation of their cries; to dragons Which howl and wail mournfully in the deserts, ( Micah 1:8 ,) either through hunger and thirst, or when they fight with, and are beaten by,...
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...
A brother, to wit, by imitation of their cries: persons of like qualities are oft called brethren, as Genesis 49:5 Proverbs 18:9 . To dragons; which howl and wail mournfully in the deserts,...
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
Isaiah 13:21 ; Isaiah 13:22 ; Isaiah 38:14 ; Job 17:14 ; Malachi 1:3 ; Micah 1:8 ; Psalms 102:6
A brother — By imitation of their cries: persons of like qualities are often called brethren. Dragon — Which howl and wail mournfully in the deserts.