Job 30
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 30, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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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. {younger...: Heb. of fewer days than I}
Job 30:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yea, whereto {might} the strength of their hands {profit} me, in whom old age was perished?
Job 30:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For want and famine {they were} solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. {solitary: or, dark as the night} {in...: Heb. yesternight}
Job 30:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots {for} their meat.
Job 30:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They were driven forth from among {men}, (they cried after them as {after} a thief;)
Job 30:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, {in} caves of the earth, and {in} the rocks. {caves: Heb. holes}
Job 30:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Job 30:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{They were} children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. {base...: Heb. men of no name}
Job 30:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Job 30:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. {and...: Heb. and withhold not spittle from}
Job 30:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
Job 30:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Upon {my} right {hand} rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Job 30:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
Job 30:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They came {upon me} as a wide breaking in {of waters}: in the desolation they rolled themselves {upon me}.
Job 30:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. {my soul: Heb. my principal one}
Job 30:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Job 30:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Job 30:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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By the great force {of my disease} is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
Job 30:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Job 30:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me {not}.
Job 30:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. {become...: Heb. turned to be cruel} {thy...: Heb. the strength of thy hand}
Job 30:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride {upon it}, and dissolvest my substance. {substance: or, wisdom}
Job 30:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For I know {that} thou wilt bring me {to} death, and {to} the house appointed for all living.
Job 30:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Howbeit he will not stretch out {his} hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. {grave: Heb. heap}
Job 30:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was {not} my soul grieved for the poor? {in trouble: Heb. hard of day?}
Job 30:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When I looked for good, then evil came {unto me}: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Job 30:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
Job 30:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, {and} I cried in the congregation.
Job 30:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. {owls: or, ostriches}
Job 30:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Job 30:30 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My harp also is {turned} to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Job 30:31 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.