Job 30:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. ”

Job 30:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They were children of fools - The word rendered “fools” נבל nâbâl , means, (1) stupid, foolish; and (2) abandoned, impious; compare 1 Samuel 25:3 , 1 Samuel 25:25 . Here it means the...
Job 30:8 - 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 30:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Children . sons. viler than the earth . smitten or scourged out of the land.
Job 30:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. Children of fools - Children of nabal; children without a name; persons of no consideration, and descendants...
Job 30:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

They were children of fools— Foolish men and inglorious, they were driven out of the country in which they lived. Job 30:9 . But now, I am become their song, &c. Houb.
Job 30:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. Fools - i:e., the impious and abandoned ( 1 Samuel 25:25 ). Base - Hebrew, nameless low-born rabble...
Job 30:8 - 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 30:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They were viler than the earth. — Rather, They are scourged out of the land, or are outcasts from the land.
Job 30:8 - 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 30:8 - 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 30:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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...
Job 30:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[They were] children of fools ,.... Their parents were fools, or they themselves were such; foolish children, or foolish men, were they that derided Job; and their derision of him was a proof of it:...
Job 30:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 30:8 [They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. Ver. 8. They were children of fools, yea, children of base men ] Homines flagitiosissimi, etia...
Job 30:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They were children of fools , &c. They were children of base, obscure parents; viler than the earth upon which they trod. Houbigant translates the verse: Foolish men and inglorious, they were d...
Job 30:8 - 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 30:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Humbled Condition. B. C. 1520. 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in...
Job 30:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Children of fools; either, 1. The genuine children of foolish parents; their children not only by birth, but by imitation; as they only are esteemed the children of Abraham who do the works of...
Job 30:8 - 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 30:8 - 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 30:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Job 30:8 - 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 30:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Complains of the Contempt he Receives from Men.
Job 30:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 22:3 ; 2 Kings 8:18 ; 2 Kings 8:27 ; Isaiah 32:6 ; Jeremiah 7:18 ; Job 40:4 ; Mark 6:24 ; Proverbs 1:22 ; Proverbs 1:7 ; Proverbs 16:22 ; Psalms 15:4 ; Psalms 49:10-13

Job 30:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 30:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 30:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 30:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 30:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 30:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 30:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 30:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 30:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 30:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 30:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 30:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 30:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 30:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 30:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 30:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 30:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 30:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 30:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 30:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge