Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 30:18

18. By the great force of my disease is my garment changed : It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat .

My Disease is so strong and prevalent, that it breaks forth every where in my Body in such plenty of purulent and filthy matter, that it infects and discolours my very garments. Others, By the great power of God my garment is changed. In both these Translations the words, of my dis[illegible: 1+ letters]ase, and of God, are not in the Hebrew Text, but are supplied by the Translators. But the words are by some not untruly nor unfitly rendred thus, without any supplement, With great force my garment is changed; for so this Verb is used, 1 Kings 22. 30. So the sense is I cannot shift or put off my garment without great strength and difficulty, the reason whereof is rendred in the following words.

It cleaveth fast to me, being glewed by that filthy matter issuing from my Sores.

As my Collar girdeth in and cleaveth to my Neck. He alludes to the fashion of the Eastern outward Garments, which were seamless and all of a piece, and had a strait mouth at the top which was brought over the head, and contracted and fastned close about the Neck.