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Themes in Job 30

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Themes in Job 30

Job 30:1 (show verse)

“But now those younger than I mock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

Dog » Shepherd dogs
Dogs » When domesticated » Employed in watching flocks
Job » Loss of friends
Mocking » The tormentors of job mock
Old age » Disrespect for pleasure-seeking » Prodigality
Persecution » Instances of » Of job
Scoffing » Instances of » Enemies of job
Scorning and mocking » Exemplified » Enemies of job
Sheep » Flocks of » Guarded by dogs
Shepherd » Dogs of
sins of Youth » Special temptations of pleasure-seeking » Prodigality

Job 30:2 (show verse)

“Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me?
Vigor had perished from them.

Job » Loss of friends
Persecution » Instances of » Of job

Job 30:3 (show verse)

“From want and famine they are gaunt
Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

Job » Loss of friends
Persecution » Instances of » Of job
Rocks » Used as » Places for shelter by the poor in their distress

Job 30:4 (show verse)

Who pluck mallow by the bushes,
And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.

Herbs » Mentioned in scripture » Mallows
Job » Loss of friends
Juniper » A tree
Mallows » A plant
Persecution » Instances of » Of job

Job 30:5 (show verse)

“They are driven from the community;
They shout against them as against a thief,

Job » Loss of friends
Persecution » Instances of » Of job

Job 30:6 (show verse)

So that they dwell in dreadful valleys,
In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

Job » Loss of friends
Persecution » Instances of » Of job
Rocks » Used as » Places for shelter by the poor in their distress
Valleys » Abounded with » Rocks and caves

Job 30:7 (show verse)

“Among the bushes they cry out;
Under the nettles they are gathered together.

Job » Loss of friends
Nettles » Figurative
Persecution » Instances of » Of job

Job 30:8 (show verse)

“Fools, even those without a name,
They were scourged from the land.

Job » Loss of friends
Persecution » Instances of » Of job
Titles and names of the wicked » Children of base men
Titles and names of the wicked » Children of fools

Job 30:9 (show verse)

“And now I have become their

taunt,

I have even become a byword to them.

Job » Loss of friends
Persecution » Instances of » Of job
Scoffing » Instances of » Enemies of job
Scorning and mocking » Exemplified » Enemies of job

Job 30:10 (show verse)

“They abhor me and stand aloof from me,
And they do not refrain from spitting at my face.

Job » Loss of friends
Persecution » Instances of » Of job
Spitting » In the face, as an indignity

Job 30:11 (show verse)

“Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me,
They have cast off the bridle before me.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:12 (show verse)

“On the right hand their brood arises;
They thrust aside my feet and build up against me their ways of destruction.

Children » Examples of helpful » Vices of
Home » Examples of helpful » Vices of
Vices » Dishonesty » Of children

Job 30:13 (show verse)

“They break up my path,
They profit from my destruction;
No one restrains them.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:14 (show verse)

“As through a wide breach they come,

Amid the tempest they roll on.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:15 (show verse)

“Terrors are turned against me;
They pursue my honor as the wind,
And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

Wind » Illustrative » Of terrors which pursue the soul

Job 30:16 (show verse)

“And now my soul is poured out within me;
Days of affliction have seized me.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:17 (show verse)

“At night it pierces my bones within me,
And my gnawing pains take no rest.

Distress » Trouble, borrowing » Pain
Insomnia » Sickness
Sleeplessness » Common causes of loss of sleep » Sickness

Job 30:18 (show verse)

“By a great force my garment is distorted;
It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:19 (show verse)

“He has cast me into the mire,
And I have become like dust and ashes.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:20 (show verse)

“I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me;
I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.

Prayer » Answer to, withheld » Of job

Job 30:21 (show verse)

“You have become cruel to me;
With the might of Your hand You persecute me.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:22 (show verse)

“You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride;
And You dissolve me in a storm.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:23 (show verse)

“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting for all living.

death » Universality of
death » Great reaper » All journey to his narrow house
Dying » Universality of
Man » Mortality of » Universality of
Universal » Blessing, possible » death

Job 30:24 (show verse)

“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand,
Or in his disaster therefore cry out for help?

No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:25 (show verse)

“Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard?
Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

Compassion and sympathy » Exemplified » Job
Social duties » Sympathy the marks of true » Human, examples of
Sympathy » The marks of true » Examples of

Job 30:26 (show verse)

“When I expected good, then evil came;
When I waited for light, then darkness came.

No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:27 (show verse)

“I am seething within and cannot relax;
Days of affliction confront me.

Bowels » Figurative » Of the sensibilities

Job 30:28 (show verse)

“I go about

mourning without comfort;

I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.

The sun » The rays of » Pleasant to man

Job 30:29 (show verse)

“I have become a brother to jackals
And a companion of ostriches.

Birds » Unclean » Owl
the Dragon » Described as » Of solitary habits
Ostriches » Illustrative » (companionship with,) of extreme desolation
Ostriches » In av the word "owl" occurs, but in the rv, it is the word "ostrich,"
Owl » In rv ostrich is substituted
Reptiles » Mentioned in scripture » Dragon

Job 30:30 (show verse)

“My skin turns black on me,
And my bones burn with fever.

Blackness » Figurative
Diseases » Disease, different forms of » Fever

Job 30:31 (show verse)

“Therefore my harp is turned to mourning,
And my flute to the sound of those who weep.

Chosen Instruments » Names of » Organs
Harp » In mourning
Music » Names of » Organs
Music » Instruments of » Organ, probably composed of pipes furnishing a number of notes
Musical instruments » Names of » Organs
Tears » Of solicitude over sinners » Of disappointment and grief