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Text -- Job 30:18-31 (NET)
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Context
30:18 With great power God grasps my clothing ; he binds me like the collar of my tunic .
30:19 He has flung me into the mud , and I have come to resemble dust and ashes .
30:20 I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.
30:21 You have become cruel to me; with the strength of your hand you attack me.
30:22 You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm .
30:23 I know that you are bringing me to death , to the meeting place for all the living .
The Contrast With the Past
30:24 “Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress .
30:25 Have I not wept for the unfortunate ? Was not my soul grieved for the poor ?
30:26 But when I hoped for good , trouble came; when I expected light , then darkness came .
30:27 My heart is in turmoil unceasingly ; the days of my affliction confront me.
30:28 I go about blackened , but not by the sun ; in the assembly I stand up and cry for help .
30:29 I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches .
30:30 My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever .
30:31 My harp is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
JOB, BOOK OF |
Complaint |
Job |
DRAGON |
CRY, CRYING |
Owl |
Jackal |
COLLAR |
Afflictions and Adversities |
Doubting |
Poor |
OSTRICH |
Music |
BROTHER |
COLOR; COLORS |
Bowels |
Music, Instrumental |
Fever |
Death |
ASHES |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes: Job 30:18 The phrase “like the collar” is difficult, primarily because their tunics did not have collars. A translation of “neck” would ...
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NET Notes: Job 30:20 If the idea of prayer is meant, then a pejorative sense to the verb is required. Some supply a negative and translate “you do not pay heed to me...
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NET Notes: Job 30:21 The LXX reads this verb as “you scourged/whipped me.” But there is no reason to adopt this change.
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NET Notes: Job 30:23 The imperfect verb would be a progressive imperfect, it is future, but it is also already underway.
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NET Notes: Job 30:24 The second colon is also difficult; it reads, “if in his destruction to them he cries.” E. Dhorme (Job, 425-26) explains how he thinks ...
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NET Notes: Job 30:27 The last clause reads “and they [it] are not quiet” or “do not cease.” The clause then serves adverbially for the sentence ...
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NET Notes: Job 30:28 The construction uses the word קֹדֵר (qoder) followed by the Piel perfect of הָלַךְ ...
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NET Notes: Job 30:29 The point of this figure is that Job’s cries of lament are like the howls and screeches of these animals, not that he lives with them. In Job 39...
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NET Notes: Job 30:30 The word חֹרֶב (khorev) also means “heat.” The heat in this line is not that of the sun, but obviously a fev...
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