“ Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. ”
Who cut up mallows - For the purpose of eating. Mallows are common medicinal plants, famous for their emollient or softening properties, and the size and brilliancy of their flowers. It is not pr...
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...
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. Who cut up mallows by the bushes - מלוח malluach, which we translate mallows, comes from מלח melach, salt; some herb or shrub of...
Who cut up mallows, &c.— Or, Sea-purslane. The word rendered juniper signifies the broom, or birch-tree. See 1 Kings 19:4 . These were, without doubt, the meanest kinds of foods and ma...
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. Mallows - rather, salt wort, which grows in deserts, and is eaten as a salad by the poor, having a salt taste (Maurer)....
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...
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...
(1) В¶ But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. (2) Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit...
Who cut up mallows by the bushes ,.... Which with the Troglodytes were of a vast size r; or rather "upon the bush" s or "tree"; and therefore cannot mean what we call mallows, which are herbs on the...
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat. Ver. 4. Who cut up mallows by the bushes ] Pitiful poor fare they are glad of; not so good as that of the Baptist, locusts and...
Who cut up mallows Or, bitter herbs , as the word seems to import, which shows their extreme necessity; by the bushes Or, by the shrubs , nigh unto which they grew. Or, with the bark of trees...
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's Humbled Condition. B. C. 1520. 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in...
Mallows; or, purslain , or salt or bitter herbs , as the word seems to import, which shows their extreme necessity. By the bushes; or, by the shrubs, nigh unto which they grew; or, with the...
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...
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision. Job’s social disabilities Man’s happiness as a social being is greatly dependent upon the kind feeling and respect which is shown to hi...
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 Complains of the Contempt he Receives from Men.
2 Kings 4:38 ; 2 Kings 4:39 ; Amos 7:14 ; Luke 15:16
Who cut — Bitter herbs, which shews their extreme necessity. Juniper — Possibly the word may signify some other plant, for the Hebrews themselves are at a loss for the signification of the names of...