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Scott's Reference Library
Job 30:16 through Job 30:31 (NIV)
16 “And now my life ebbs away;
days of suffering grip me.
17 Night pierces my bones;
my gnawing pains never rest.
18 In his great power 'God' becomes like clothing to me;
he binds me like the neck of my garment.
19 He throws me into the mud,
and I am reduced to dust and ashes.
20 “I cry out to you, O God, but you do not answer;
I stand up, but you merely look at me.
21 You turn on me ruthlessly;
with the might of your hand you attack me.
22 You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;
you toss me about in the storm.
23 I know you will bring me down to death,
to the place appointed for all the living.
24 “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man
when he cries for help in his distress.
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble?
Has not my soul grieved for the poor?
26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, then came darkness.
27 The churning inside me never stops;
days of suffering confront me.
28 I go about blackened, but not by the sun;
I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
29 I have become a brother of jackals,
a companion of owls.
30 My skin grows black and peels;
my body burns with fever.
31 My harp is tuned to mourning,
and my flute to the sound of wailing.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 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.
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