- What is the contrast with Job 29 that is immediately evident here?
- How would you characterize the people that Job is describing in Job 30:3-8?
- What do these verses tell us about Job’s view of the make-up of society?
- Contrast the attitudes of people in Job 30 with those that Job recalls from his past in Job 29.
- What is the ultimate degradation that Job experiences (Job 30:10)? Compare Numbers 12:14.
- Compare Job’s attitude to God in Job 30:11 with Job 29:2-5.
- What does he mean by “they build roads for my ruin” (Job 30:12)?
- Besides his physical condition, what has Job lost (Job 30:15)?
- How does Job describe his physical condition (Job 30:18)?
- Explain the metaphors clay, dust, and ashes (Job 30:19).
- What is Job crying and waiting for in Job 30:20?
- How would you characterize his protest to God (Job 30:20-24)?
- What is the gist of his protest in Job 30:25?
- What is the assembly to which Job refuses in Job 30:28?
- What is the habitat of jackals and ostriches which Job considers appropriate to his circumstances?
- What does Job 30:31 tell us about mourning customs in Job’s milieu?
