Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 30:17
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Job30:17
17. My bones are pierced in me , in the nightseason : and my sinews take no rest.
Heb. It; to wit, the Terrour or Affliction last mentioned: Or, He, i. e. God, hath pierced my bones. This is no slight and superficial, but a most deep wound that reacheth to my very heart and bones, and marrow. Nothing in me is so secret, but it reacheth it, nothing so hard and solid, but it feels the weight and burden of it.
Heb. from above me, by an Arrow shot from Heaven, whence my Calamities come, and that in a singular and eminent manner. Or, by that which is upon me: the sores which are upon my skin or outward flesh, do pierce and pain me even to the bones. For now he is come from describing the terrours of his Mind to express the torments of his Body.
When others do, and I should receive some rest and refreshment.
And the flesh of my body which covereth the Sinews, and is mixed with them, and may seem to be synecdochically expressed by the Sinews, which are the strength and support of the flesh. So he signifies that neither his bones nor his flesh resteth. Or, and my Veins or Arteries, which rest or move slowly when the Mind and Body are well composed; but in Iob did move vehemently and restlessly by reason of his great heat and pain, and passion.
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