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Text -- Job 30:1-9 (NET)
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Job’s Present Misery
30:1 “But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs .
30:2 Moreover , the strength of their hands – what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished ;
30:3 gaunt with want and hunger , they would gnaw the parched land , in former time desolate and waste .
30:4 By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes , and the root of the broom tree was their food .
30:5 They were banished from the community – people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves –
30:6 so that they had to live in the dry stream beds , in the holes of the ground , and among the rocks .
30:7 They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles .
30:8 Sons of senseless and nameless people , they were driven out of the land with whips.
Job’s Indignities
30:9 “And now I have become their taunt song ; I have become a byword among them .
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NET Notes: Job 30:1 Job is mocked by young fellows who come from low extraction. They mocked their elders and their betters. The scorn is strong here – dogs were de...
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NET Notes: Job 30:2 The word כֶּלַח (kelakh) only occurs in Job 5:26; but the Arabic cognate gives this meaning “strength.”...
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NET Notes: Job 30:3 The MT has “yesterday desolate and waste.” The word “yesterday” (אֶמֶשׁ, ’emesh) is ...
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NET Notes: Job 30:5 The text merely says “as thieves,” but it obviously compares the poor to the thieves.
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NET Notes: Job 30:6 The adjectives followed by a partitive genitive take on the emphasis of a superlative: “in the most horrible of valleys” (see GKC 431 ...
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NET Notes: Job 30:7 The Pual of the verb סָפַח (safakh, “to join”) also brings out the passivity of these people – “...
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NET Notes: Job 30:8 Heb “they were whipped from the land” (cf. ESV) or “they were cast out from the land” (HALOT 697 s.v. נכא). ...
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