Did you know that street urchins taunted Job, spat in his face, and ran away?
Job 30:10 says this, yet many people miss it.
My next publication demonstrates the need for simple explanations of the Bible. Does the following narrative make Job 30 any clearer to you?
Job now contrasts the past with the present v1. Even young people deride him, whose fathers he would have disdained to employ v1 because they were unprofitable and beyond completing any useful task v2. They did not look after themselves v3 and scavenged for food v4, so that people drove them away from society as thieves v5 to dwell in caves v6 and wild places v7. They had foolish and base men as their fathers v8 and now Job is their song and their byword v9, spitting in his face and running away v10. Because God has troubled him, they now add to his troubles and kick him when he is down v11. They jostle him and knock him over v12. They get in his way v13. They ambush and jump on him v14, giving him a fright without any regard to his welfare v15, relentlessly pursuing him without relief v16. He feels drained and helpless before them v16. He feels his bones sore at night and his muscles ache v17.
Job 30:1-17
The lessons from the book of Job are very many and often overlooked because people cannot follow the argument very clearly. I plan to clarify this in my next publication.
Update:
14 Dec 2018: after ten years’ gestation it is beginning to come to the birth.
7 Dec 2024: we are almost there.
Donald's Thoughts 
Great to see that you are still serving the Lord Doctor Boyd! I too have been continually studying the bible, including the book of Job. Here is my summary of the book.
The Lord chose for His purposes to permit Job to be afflicted and suffer trials. Yes this involves God’s sovereignty. Job’s first three friends; Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite came to Job and offered their unsolicited counsel to Job. The problem with their advice is that while they quoted the Word of God, they seemed to take the Word of God out of context. Whilst Job did not error at first by falsely charging God, Job did faulter when He questioned why God permitted the trials. Then later on a forth friend visits Job, Elihu and he also offers Job some advice. So here is the interesting part to me, when the Lord responds to Job’s questions, the Lord never answers Job’s questions, probably because God owes no man an explanation. But the Lord did rebuke Job’s first three friends for what they had said to Job, and the Lord rebuked Job himself. What the Lord did not do is rebuke the words of Elihu. Therefore, whatever it is that Elihu had said to Job is good and correct. Essential Elihu’s message to Job was, “Get your eyes off of your situation and circumstances and get them onto the Lord, or Job you will miss the miraculous work that God is about to do. The message is universal to all of us human beings. When by God’s sovereignty the Lord permits and ordains trials for me, the best advice for me is that same as Elihu’s advice to Job. Amen.
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Good to hear from you, Leo.
We are on the same track but my publication will show the differences usually overlooked by commentators.
God bless you in your labours.
Onwards and upwards.
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