Job 30 · Verse 18

Job 30:18

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
Job 30:18, King James Version

Job 30:18 in other translations

BSBWith great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.
WEBMy garment is disfigured by great force. It binds me about as the collar of my tunic.
ASVBy God’s great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
YLTBy the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.
DARBYBy their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.
BBEWith great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.
WebsterBy the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

What does Job 30:18 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 30:16-23

16-23. Job's outward calamities affect his mind. poured out--in irrepressible complaints (Psa 42:4; Jos 7:5).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 18 Is my garment changed - There seem to be here plain allusions to the effect of his cruel disease; the whole body being enveloped with a kind of elephantine hide, formed by innumerable incrustations from the ulcerated surface. It bindeth me about - There is now a new kind of covering to my body, formed by the effects of this disease; and it is not a garment which I can cast off; it is as closely attached to me as the collar of my coat. Or, my disease seizes me as a strong armed man; it has throttled me, and cast me in the mud. This is probably an allusion to two persons struggling: the stronger seizes the other by the throat, brings him down, and treads him in the dirt.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 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…

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Job 30:18 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בְּרָב\־be.rov-with greatness ofH7227
כֹּ֭חַKo.achstrengthH3581
יִתְחַפֵּ֣שׂyit.cha.Pesit disguises itselfH2664
לְבוּשִׁ֑יle.vu.Shiclothing myH3830
כְּפִ֖יke.Filike [the] mouth ofH6310
כֻתָּנְתִּ֣יkhu.ta.ne.Titunic myH3801
יַֽאַזְרֵֽנִי\׃Ya.'az.Re.nihe girds about meH247

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 30:18

  • Job 2:7

    So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

  • Job 19:20

    My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

  • Job 7:5

    My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

  • Isaiah 1:5-6

    Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

  • Psalms 38:5

    My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
By the great.
2:7; 7:5; 19:20; Ps 38:5; Isa 1:5,6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 30:17

    My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

  • Job 30:18

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

  • Job 30:19

    He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

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Job 30:18 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Con la grande copia de materia mi vestidura está demudada; cíñeme como el cuello de mi túnica.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Par leur grande force ils deviennent mon vêtement; ils me serrent comme le collet de ma tunique.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Durch die Größe ihrer Kraft verändert sich mein Gewand, es umschließt mich wie der Halssaum meines Leibrocks.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		In multitudine eorum consumitur vestimentum meum, et quasi capitio tunicæ succinxerunt me.