30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
30 My skin grows black and peels; my body burns with fever.
30 My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.
30 I'm black and blue all over, burning up with fever.
30 My skin grows black and falls from me; My bones burn with fever.
30 My skin has turned dark, and my bones burn with fever.
83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
83 Though I am like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your decrees.
83 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.
83 There's smoke in my eyes - they burn and water, but I keep a steady gaze on the instructions you post.
83 For I have become like a wineskin in smoke, Yet I do not forget Your statutes.
83 I am shriveled like a wineskin in the smoke, but I have not forgotten to obey your decrees.
(Read Psalm 119:81-88)
The psalmist sought deliverance from his sins, his foes, and his fears. Hope deferred made him faint; his eyes failed by looking out for this expected salvation. But when the eyes fail, yet faith must not. His affliction was great. He was become like a leathern bottle, which, if hung up in the smoke, is dried and shrivelled up. We must ever be mindful of God's statutes. The days of the believer's mourning shall be ended; they are but for a moment, compared with eternal happiness. His enemies used craft as well as power for his ruin, in contempt of the law of God. The commandments of God are true and faithful guides in the path of peace and safety. We may best expect help from God when, like our Master, we do well and suffer for it. Wicked men may almost consume the believer upon earth, but he would sooner forsake all than forsake the word of the Lord. We should depend upon the grace of God for strength to do every good work. The surest token of God's good-will toward us, is his good work in us.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 30:30
Commentary on Job 30:15-31
(Read Job 30:15-31)
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.