Job 30:31 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. ”

Job 30:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My harp also is turned to mourning - What formerly gave cheerful sounds, now gives only notes of plaintiveness and lamentation. The harp was probably an instrument originally designed to give sou...
Job 30:31 - 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 30:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. My harp also is turned to mourning - Instead of the harp, my only music is my own plaintive cries. And my organ -...
Job 30:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. Organ - rather, pipe ( Job 21:12 ): "My joy is turned into the voice of weeping" ( Lamentations 5:15 ). My h...
Job 30:31 - 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 30:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

My harp also is turned to mourning. — Or, Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of them that weep. The musical instruments here named, like those of Genesis 4:21 ,...
Job 30:31 - 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 30:31 - 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 30:31 - 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 30:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

My harp also is [turned] to mourning ,.... Which he used, as David, either in religious worship, expressing praise to God thereby, or for his recreation in an innocent way; but now it was laid aside...
Job 30:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. Ver. 31. My harp also is turned to mourning ] All the days of the afflicted are evil, Proverbs 15:15 , his har...
Job 30:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

My skin is black upon me , &c. “The boiling heat of my body hath so parched me that my skin looks black, and the marrow in my bones, and all my vital moisture, are dried up.” My harp also is tu...
Job 30:31 - 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 30:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job Complains of His Affliction. B. C. 1520. 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursu...
Job 30:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Either, 1. I have now nothing but bitter lamentations instead of my former expressions of joy. Or, 2. Those very things which formerly were occasions and instruments of my delight, do now renew a...
Job 30:31 - 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 30:31 - 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 30:31 - 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 30:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Unspeakable Misery and Disappointment with which Job Battled
Job 30:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 6:18 ; Ecclesiastes 3:4 ; Isaiah 21:4 ; Isaiah 22:12 ; Isaiah 24:7-9 ; Lamentations 5:15 ; Psalms 137:1-4

Job 30:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 30:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 30:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 30:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 30:31 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 30:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 30:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 30:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 30:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 30:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:31 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 30:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 30:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 30:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 30:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 30:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge