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Job 30:31
Job 30:31
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Job 30 — OverviewJob 30 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleIt is a melancholy "But now" which this chapter begins with. Adversity
is here described as much to the life as prosperity was in the
foregoing chapter, and the height of that did but increase the depth of…Job 30 — OverviewJob 30 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJob 30:1, Job’s honour is turned into extreme contempt; Job 30:15, and his prosperity into calamity.Job 30 — OverviewJob 30 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleJob in this chapter sets forth his then unhappy state and condition, in contrast with his former state of prosperity described in the preceding chapter: things had taken a strange turn, and were just the reverse of what…Job 30:1-31Job 30:1-31 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITIONJob 30:1-31Job 30:1-31 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe contrast is now completed. Having drawn the portrait of himself as he was, rich, honoured, blessed with children, flourishing, in favour with both God and man, Job now presents himself to us as he is, despised of…Job 30:1-31Job 30:1-31 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe troubles of the present.
In contrast to the happy past of honour and respect on which he has been so wistfully dwelling in the previous chapter, Job sees himself now exposed to the scorn and contempt of the meanest…