Job

Job 30 ©

1 Job lamenteth the change of his honour into extreme contempt; 15 and of his prosperity into the deepest distress.

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BUT now they that are 1younger than I ahave me in derision, bwhose fathers I would have cdisdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

a ch. 19.13-19. 2Ki. 2.23. Is. 3.5.
b ch. 24.4-8.
c v.2-8. Tit. 1.12.
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Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

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For want and famine they were 2solitary; dfleeing into the wilderness 3in former time desolate and waste.

d He. 11.37,38. Pr. 23.21.
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Who ecut up *mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their *meat.

e Am. 7.14. 2Ki. 4.39. Lu. 15.16.
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They fwere driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

f Ge. 21.10; 4.12,14. Ps. 109.10.
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To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in 4caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

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

g Ja. 4.2. Ge. 16.12. ch. 6.5; 11.12. Lu. 14.23.
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They were children of fools, yea, children of 5*base men: they were *viler than the earth.

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And hnow am I their song, yea, I am their i*byword.

h Ps. 35.15,16; 69.12. La. 3.14,63. ch. 14.6. Re. 11.9,10.
i ch. 17.6.
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jThey abhor me, they flee far from me, 6and spare not to spit in my face.

j ch. 19.13,14. Is. 3.5; 49.7; 53.3. Am. 5.10. Zec. 11.8.
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kBecause he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also llet loose the bridle before me.

k ch. 12.18. Ps. 39.9.
l Ps. 35.15,16,19,21.
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Upon my mright hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they nraise up against me the ways of their destruction.

m Ps. 109.6. Zec. 3.1. ch. 19.15,16,18. v.1. Is. 3.5. 2Ki. 2.23.
n ch. 19.12.
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They omar my path, they *set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

o Ac. 13.10. Zec. 1.15. Ps. 69.26.
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They came upon me pas a wide breaking in of waters : in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

p Ps. 18.4; 22.12,13,16; 69.1,2,15. Is. 8.7,8.
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qTerrors are turned upon me: they pursue 7my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away ras a cloud.

q ch. 4.6; 9.27,28; 7.14; 10.16. Ps. 88.15. Je. 17.17.
r Ho. 4.6; 13.3. ch. 7.9.
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And now my ssoul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

s 1Sa. 1.15. Ps. 22.14; 42.4; 40.11-13.
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My tbones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

t ch. 33.19. Ps. 6.2,6. Is. 38.13.
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uBy the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

u ch. 2.7; 7.5,15; 9.31.
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He hath vcast me into the mire, and I am become like wdust and ashes.

v ch. 9.31. Ps. 40.2; 69.1,2.
w ch. 2.8. Ge. 18.27.
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xI cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

x Je. 15.1. Ps. 22.2; 80.4,5. Mat. 15.23. La. 3.8,44.
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Thou art 8become cruel to me: with 9thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

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Thou yliftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my 10substance.

y Ps. 55.8. Is. 27.8. Eze. 5.2. ch. 1.19. Ho. 13.15. Je. 4.11,12.
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For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and zto the house appointed for all living.

z Ec. 12.5. He. 9.27. Ge. 3.19. 2Sa. 14.14.
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Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the 11grave, though they cry in his destruction.

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aDid not I weep 12for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

a Ps. 35.13,14. Ro. 12.15. He. 13.3. ch. 31.17-20. Ga. 6.2.
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bWhen I looked for good, then evil came unto me : and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

b Je. 14.19; 15.18; 8.15. Mi. 1.12. Ps. 69.20. Is. 59.9.
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My cbowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction *prevented me.

c La. 1.16,20. Ps. 22.14; 32.3,4; 39.3. Je. 4.19. ch. 19.12.
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I went dmourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

d Ps. 38.6; 42.9; 43.2. La. 3.1,2. Je. 20.8,9. Ca. 1.5,6.
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eI am a brother to *dragons, and a companion to 13owls.

e Ps. 102.6; 57.4. Mi. 1.8. Is. 38.14.
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fMy skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

f Ps. 119.83; 102.3. La. 4.8; 5.10.
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gMy harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

g Is. 38.17; 21.4. 2Sa. 19.2. La. 5.15. Am. 8.10. ch. 21.12.