Job 30:14-23

¹⁴ As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.

¹⁵ He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away. ¹⁶ And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction. ¹⁷ At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down. ¹⁸ By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me. ¹⁹ Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes. ²⁰ I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me. ²¹ Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppresest me. ²² Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest—Thou levellest me. ²³ For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And 'to' the house appointed for all living.

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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 30:14-23

Commentary on Job 30:1-14

(Read Job 30:1-14)

Job contrasts his present condition with his former honour and authority. What little cause have men to be ambitious or proud of that which may be so easily lost, and what little confidence is to be put in it! We should not be cast down if we are despised, reviled, and hated by wicked men. We should look to Jesus, who endured the contradiction of sinners.

Commentary on Job 30:15-31

(Read Job 30:15-31)

Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried as in a tempest, and is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something with which Job comforts himself, yet it is but a little. He foresees that death will be the end of all his troubles. God's wrath might bring him to death; but his soul would be safe and happy in the world of spirits. If none pity us, yet our God, who corrects, pities us, even as a father pitieth his own children. And let us look more to the things of eternity: then the believer will cease from mourning, and joyfully praise redeeming love.