“ And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. ”
And now am I their song - See Job 17:6 ; compare Psalms 69:12 , “I was the song of the drunkards;” Lamentations 3:14 , “I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.” The sens...
And now am I their (e) song, yea, I am their byword. (e) They make songs of me, and mock my misery.
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...
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. Now am I their song - I am the subject of their mirth, and serve as a proverb or by-word. They use me with every species of indignity.
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. ( Job 17:6 .) Strikingly similar to the derision Jesus Christ underwent ( Lamentations 3:14 ; Psalms 69:12 ). Here Job returns to the sentiment...
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...
And now am I their song. — See the references in the margin, which show that it is quite appropriate to give to the complaints of Job a Messianic interpretation.
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...
And now am I their song ,.... The subject of their song, of whom they sung ballads about the streets, in public places, and at their festivals and merriments, as Christ the antitype of Job was the s...
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. Ver. 9. And now am I their song ] They compose comedies out of my tragedies, and make themselves merry in my misery; they not only make ballads a...
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...
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...
The matter of their song and derision. They now rejoice in my calamities, because formerly I used my authority to punish such vagrants and miscreants.
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.
Job 17:6 ; Lamentations 3:14 ; Lamentations 3:63 ; Psalms 35:15 ; Psalms 35:16 ; Psalms 44:14 ; Psalms 69:12