2 Kings 4:38; 2 Kings 4:39; Amos 7:14; Luke 15:16
Who cut up mallows - For the purpose of eating. Mallows are common medicinal plants, famous for their emollient or softening properties, and the...
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...
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, c...
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...
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 sa...
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...
Render , 'They pluck salt-wort' (a plant sometimes eaten by the abjectly poor) 'among the bushes, and the roots of the white broom to warm them.' Th...
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,...
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...
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 o...
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...
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...
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...
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.
who cut up mallows, the saltwort of the desert, by the bushes, where it led a precarious existence in the shadow of larger bushes, and juniper roo...
Who cut — Bitter herbs, which shews their extreme necessity. Juniper — Possibly the word may signify some other plant, for the Hebrews themselves a...
4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.