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Job 30:19

Job 30:19
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

He hath cast me into the mire - That is, God has done it. In this book the name of God is often understood where the speaker seems to avoid it, in order that it may not be needlessly repeated. On the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 30:15-31

In this second part of Job's complaint, which is very bitter, and has a great many sorrowful accents in it, we may observe a great deal that he complains of and some little that he comforts himself…

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