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He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
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God as the Source of Affliction
Commentators unanimously agree that the 'He' in this verse refers to God. Job is directly expressing his feeling that God Himself has thrown him into the 'mire' of affliction and calamity. This highlights the raw and honest nature of biblical lament, where the sufferer directly engages with God as the perceived source of their pain.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
He has 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 i…
19th Century
Anglican
He has cast me into the mire. —He now turns more directly to God, having in Job 30:16 turned from man to his own conditio…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He has cast me into the mire As Jeremiah was literally, this is to be understood in a figurative sense; not of the mire o…
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Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin that, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join wit…
13th Century
Catholic
After listing the many prosperous things he had enjoyed in the past, Job now lists the adversities he was suffering. He begins by showing that, in …
