Psalms 69:26; Zechariah 1:15
They mar my path - They break up all my plans. Perhaps here, also, the image is taken from war, and Job may represent himself as on a line of mar...
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no (i) helper. (i) They need no one to help them.
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 have no helper . they derive no help or benefit from it.
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. They mar my path - They destroy the way-marks, so that there is no safety in tra...
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. Image of an assailed fortress continued. They tear up the path by which s...
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 have no helper ] Perhaps we should read, 'There is none to check them.'
They have no helper — i.e., probably without deriving therefrom any help or advantage themselves.
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 mar my path ,.... Hindered him in the exercise of religious duties; would not suffer him to attend the ways and worship of God, or to walk in t...
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. Ver. 13. They mar my paths ] That is, all my studies and endeavours; they obs...
They mar my path Or, rather, dig up my path. As I am in great misery, so they endeavour to stop all my ways out of it, and to frustrate all my co...
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...
As I am in great misery, so they endeavour to stop all my ways out of it, and to frustrate all my counsels and courses of obtaining relief or comfort...
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 mar my path, tearing it down, making it impassable; they set forward my calamity, promoting it, helping it along as it speeds to Job's destruc...
Mar — As I am in great misery, so they endeavour to stop all my ways out of it. Set forward — Increasing it by their invectives, and censures. Even...
13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.