Children. sons.
viler than the earth. smitten or scourged out of the land.
They were children of fools - The word rendered “fools” נבל nâbâl , means, (1) stupid, foolish; and (2) abandoned, impious; compare 1 S...
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 schol...
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 n...
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 beco...
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...
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 n...
They were viler than the earth. — Rather, They are scourged out of the land, or are outcasts from the land.
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 in...
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 co...
(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,...
[They were] children of fools ,.... Their parents were fools, or they themselves were such; foolish children, or foolish men, were they that derided...
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, chi...
They were children of fools , &c. They were children of base, obscure parents; viler than the earth upon which they trod. Houbigant translates t...
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 you...
Job's Humbled Condition. B. C. 1520. 1...
Children of fools; either, 1. The genuine children of foolish parents; their children not only by birth, but by imitation; as they only are estee...
THE CONTRAST.—JOB’S SOLILOQUY, CONTINUED With his former state of happiness and honour Job now contrasts his present misery and degradation. His...
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...
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...
EXPOSITION Job 30:1-18 The contrast is now completed. Having drawn the portrait of himself as he was, rich, honoured, blessed with children...
Job Complains of the Contempt he Receives from Men.
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men, really, no-account men; they were viler than the earth, literally, "who are whipped out of...
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 ; Prove...
8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.