English Standard Version
Job 30:18
18With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.
Job 30:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
- New International Version (NIV)In his great power God becomes like clothing to me; he binds me like the neck of my garment.
- New King James Version (NKJV)By great force my garment is disfigured; It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
- New Living Translation (NLT)With a strong hand, God grabs my shirt. He grips me by the collar of my coat.
Context of Job 30:18
16"And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me. 17The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest. With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic. 19God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. 20I cry to you for help and you do not answer me; I stand, and you only look at me.
Read all of Job 30Job 30:18 word by word
בְּרָב־כֹּ֭חַ יִתְחַפֵּ֣שׂ לְבוּשִׁ֑י כְּפִ֖י כֻתָּנְתִּ֣י יַֽאַזְרֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 30:18
- Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
- Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
- Job 19:20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
- Psalms 38:5My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,
- Isaiah 1:5Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Commentaries on Job 30:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18Is my garment changed - There seem to be here plain allusions to the effect of his cruel disease; the whole body being enveloped with a kind of elephantine hide, formed by innumerable incrustations from the ulcerated surface. It bindeth me about - There is now a new kind of covering to my body, formed by the effects of this disease; and it is not a garment which I can cast off; it is as closely attached to me as the collar of my coat. Or, my disease…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18By the great force of my disease - The words “of my disease” are not in the Hebrew. The usual interpretation of the passage is, that in consequence of the foul and offensive nature of his malady, his garment had become discolored or defiled - changed from being white and clear to filthiness and offensiveness. Some have understood it as referring to the skin, and as denoting that it was so affected with the leprosy, that he could scarcely be recognized…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-31Verses 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18He seizes me by the collar: The Hebrew in this verse is hard to translate. It might mean Job feels like God is choking him and he is a throw him into the mud (compare 30:19).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-2316-23. Job's outward calamities affect his mind. poured out--in irrepressible complaints (Psa 42:4; Jos 7:5).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 30
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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