Job 30:18 In his great power God becomes like clothing to me; he binds me like the neck of my garment.

◄ Job 30:18 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
In his great power God becomes like clothing to me; he binds me like the neck of my garment.

English Standard Version
With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.

New American Standard Bible
"By a great force my garment is distorted; It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

King James Bible
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My clothing is distorted with great force; He chokes me by the neck of my garment.

International Standard Version
My clothes are disheveled by his forceful treatment of me; he restricts my movement like the collar of my cloak.

American Standard Version
By God's great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.

Darby Bible Translation
By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.

Young's Literal Translation
By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

30:15-31 Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried as in a tempest, and is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something with which Job comforts himself, yet it is but a little. He foresees that death will be the end of all his troubles. God's wrath might bring him to death; but his soul would be safe and happy in the world of spirits. If none pity us, yet our God, who corrects, pities us, even as a father pitieth his own children. And let us look more to the things of eternity: then the believer will cease from mourning, and joyfully praise redeeming love.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

18. of my disease—rather, "of God" (Job 23:6).

garment changed—from a robe of honor to one of mourning, literally (Job 2:8; Joh 3:6) and metaphorically [Umbreit]. Or rather, as Schuttens, following up Job 30:17, My outer garment is changed into affliction; that is, affliction has become my outer garment; it also bindeth me fast round (my throat) as the collar of the inner coat; that is, it is both my inner and outer garment. Observe the distinction between the inner and outer garments. The latter refers to his afflictions from without (Job 30:1-13); the former his personal afflictions (Job 30:14-23). Umbreit makes "God" subject to "bindeth," as in Job 30:19.