Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Job 30:17
In the Hebrew, night is poetically personified, as in Job 3:3 : "night pierceth my bones (so that they fall) from me" (not as English Version, "in me"; see Job 30:30).
sinews—so the Arabic, "veins," akin to the Hebrew; rather, "gnawers" (see on Job 30:3), namely, my gnawing pains never cease. Effects of elephantiasis.
Job 30:16-23
Job's outward calamities affect his mind.
poured out—in irrepressible complaints (Psalms 42:4; Joshua 7:5).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Job 30:17:
Job 30:18
Job 30:18
Job 30:30
Job 33:22
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