Teks -- Job 30:19 (NET)

30:19 He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

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JFB: Job 30:16-23

Job's outward calamities affect his mind.

JFB: Job 30:16-23 - poured out

In irrepressible complaints (Psa 42:4; Jos 7:5).

JFB: Job 30:19

God is poetically said to do that which the mourner had done to himself (Job 2:8). With lying in the ashes he had become, like them, in dirty color.

TSK: Job 30:19 - cast me // dust

cast me : Job 9:31; Psa 69:1, Psa 69:2; Jer 38:6

dust : Job 2:8, Job 42:6; Gen 18:27

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Poole: Job 30:19 - and I am become like dust and ashes

He hath made me contemptible and filthy, and loathsome for my sores, my whole body being a kind of quagmire, in regard of the filth breaking forth in all its parts;

and I am become like dust and ashes like one dead and turned to dust; more like a rotten carcass than a living man.

Haydock: Job 30:19 - I am

I am. Hebrew, "He hat cast me into the mire;" (Protestants) or, "He regards me as dirt; my portion is on the earth and dust." (Haydock) ---

All look upon me with horror and contempt. (Calmet)

Gill: Job 30:19 - He hath cast me into the mire // and I am become like dust and ashes

He hath cast me into the mire,.... As Jeremiah was literally; here it is to be understood in a figurative sense; not of the mire of sin, into which God casts none, men fall into it of themselves, but of the mire of affliction and calamity; see Psa 40:2; and which Job here ascribes to God; and whereby he was in as mean, abject, and contemptible a condition, as if he had been thrown into a kennel, and rolled in it; and he speaks of it as an act of God, done with contempt of him, and indignation at him, as he apprehended it. Some Jewish writers ^e interpret it, "he taught me in the mire", or "it taught me"; his disease, his ulcers taught him to sit down in the mire, or in the midst of ashes, Job 2:8; but though this reading might admit of a good sense, as that Job was taught, as every good man is, many useful lessons in and by afflictions; yet it seems to be a sense foreign from the words:

and I am become like dust and ashes; a phrase by which Abraham expresses his vileness, meanness, and unworthiness in the sight of God, Gen 18:27; Job, through the force of his disease, looked like a corpse, or one half dead, and was crumbling and dropping into the dust of death and the grave, and looked livid and ash coloured; and even in a literal sense was covered with dust and ashes, when he sat among them, Job 2:8; though here it chiefly respects the miserable, forlorn, and contemptible condition in which he was.