Job 30

Job’s Present State Is Humiliating

Job 30:1

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.

Breakdown

Younger than I The Edomites are younger than the Israelites. derision To mock. ...disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock For risk that they might have sex with the dog.

Precepts

Genesis 3:14

Who are the Edomites

Genesis 25:25 Genesis 27:11 Genesis 27:40 Job 9:24 Psalms 49:11 Psalms 55:21 Jeremiah 49:16 Obadiah 1:3 2 Esdras 6:9 Revelation 12:10

Strongs concordance

Job 30:2

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

Strongs concordance

Job 30:3

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

Breakdown

Fleeing into the wilderness Dark nations got together to force out the Edomites

Strongs concordance

Job 30:4

Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:5

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

Breakdown

Edomites where driven forth from among men in the ancient world and in the beginning of the "Dark Ages" by Septimius Severus and Pescennius Niger around 193 AD

Strongs concordance

Job 30:6

To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

Breakdown

Caucasian: one from the Caucasus mountains

Strongs concordance

Job 30:7

Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

Breakdown

Brayed The loud, harsh cry of a donkey or mule, or a sound, voice, or laugh resembling a bray.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:8

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:9

And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:10

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:11

Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:12

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:13

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:14

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:15

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:16

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:17

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:18

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:19

He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:20

I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:21

Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:22

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:23

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:24

Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:25

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Strongs concordance

Job 30:26

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:27

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:28

I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:29

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

Strongs concordance

Job 30:30

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Colour Scriptures

Genesis 50:11 Song of Solomon 1:5 Jeremiah 14:2 Lamentations 4:8 Hosea 7:8 Amos 9:7 Revelation 1:13-16

Strongs concordance

Job 30:31

My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

Strongs concordance