God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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Gill's Exposition
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder,.... He was in easy and affluent circumstances, abounding with the good things of this life, lay in his nest, as his expression is, Job 29:18; quietly and…
Barnes' Notes
God hath delivered me - Margin “shut me up.” The meaning is, that God had committed him to their hands as a prisoner or captive. They had power over him to do as they pleased. To the ungodly - Into…
Job's complaint is here as bitter as any where in all his discourses, and he is at a stand whether to smother it or to give it vent. Sometimes the one and sometimes the other is a relief to the…
Cambridge Bible
hath delivered delivereth. Similarly, turnethor casteth me into. By the "ungodly" Job does not mean his friends, but the low rabble of men, such as are described in ch. 30.
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