15 " Terrors are turned against me; They pursue my honor as the wind , And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud . 16 "And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have seized me. 17 "At night it pierces my bones within e me, And my gnawing pains take no rest . 18 "By a great force my garment is distorted ; It binds me about as the collar of my coat . 19 "He has cast me into the mire , And I have become like dust and ashes . 20 "I cry out to You for help , but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me. 21 "You have become cruel to me; With the might of Your hand You persecute me. 22 "You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride ; And You dissolve me in a storm . 23 "For I know that You will bring me to death And to the house of meeting for all living . 24 "Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand , Or in his disaster therefore cry out for help ? 25 "Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard ? Was not my soul grieved for the needy ? 26 "When I expected good , then evil came ; When I waited for light , then darkness came . 27 "I am seething within and cannot relax ; Days of affliction confront me. 28 "I go about mourning without comfort; I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help . 29 "I have become a brother to jackals And a companion of ostriches e . 30 "My skin turns black on me, And my bones burn with fever . 31 "Therefore my harp is turned to mourning , And my flute to the sound of those who weep .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 30:15-31
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.