George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 3:16
Light; dying in the womb. He expresses a desire that he had been thus prevented from feeling his present miseries and danger of sin. (Haydock)
Light; dying in the womb. He expresses a desire that he had been thus prevented from feeling his present miseries and danger of sin. (Haydock)
Verse Job 3:16. _OR AS A HIDDEN UNTIMELY BIRTH_] An early miscarriage, which was scarcely perceptible by the parent herself; and in this case he _had not been _- he had never had the distinguishable f...
OR AS AN HIDDEN UNTIMELY BIRTH - As an abortion which is hid, or concealed; that is, which is soon removed from the sight. So the Psalmist, Psalms 58:8 : As a snail which melteth, let thom dissolve;...
CHAPTER 3 JOB'S LAMENT _ 1. Job curses the day of his birth (Job 3:1)_ 2. He longs for death (Job 3:10) 3. The reason why (Job 3:24) Job 3:1. The s
JOB'S LAMENTATION. Here the later poem begins, and at once we pass into another world. The patient Job of the Volksbuch is gone, and we have instead one who complains bitterly that ever he was born. T...
Would God I had died from my birth If he must be born, Job asks, Why he did not die from the womb? his eye turning to the next possibility and chance of escaping sorrow. Had he died he would have bee...
With strong revulsion from the anguish of life Job desires even if possible a deeper death than to have died when born, even the death of having been dead born, scarcely to be distinguished from non-e...
2. Asks why he was born (Job 3:11-19) TEXT 3:11-19 11 WHY DIED I NOT FROM THE WOMB? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? 12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, th...
_OR AS AN HIDDEN UNTIMELY BIRTH I HAD NOT BEEN; AS INFANTS WHICH NEVER SAW LIGHT._ Untimely birth (Psalms 58:8) - preferable to the life of the restless miser (Ecclesiastes 6:3)....
JOB CURSES HIS DAY Job curses the day of his birth. He asks why he did not die at birth: why should his wretched life be prolonged? We are now confronted with a striking change in Job's frame of mind...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 3 JOB’S FIRST SPEECH JOB R...
UNTIMELY BIRTH. — Another condition which would have relieved him from the experience of suffering....
אֹ֚ו כְ נֵ֣פֶל טָ֭מוּן לֹ֣א אֶהְיֶ֑ה כְּ֝
VI. THE CRY FROM THE DEPTH Job 3:1 Job SPEAKS WHILE the friends of Job sat beside him that dreary week of silence, each of them was meditating in his own way the sudden calamities which had brought...
IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? Job 3:1 In the closing paragraphs of the previous chapter three friends arrive. Teman is Edom; for Shuah see Genesis 25:2; Naamah is Arabia. The group of spectators, gathered r...
Silent sympathy always creates an opportunity for grief to express itself. Job's outcry was undoubtedly an answer to their sympathy. So far, it was good, and they had helped him. It is always better t...
(8) Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. (9) Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawn...
Job's Complaint (Response to an insurance company) I am writing in response to your request for additional information regarding my claim. In block #3 of the accident form, I put "trying to do the job...
But the depths of Job's heart were not yet reached, and to do this was the purpose of God, whatever Satan's thoughts may have been. Job did not know himself, and up to this time, with all his piety, h...
OR AS AN HIDDEN UNTIMELY BIRTH,.... Or "hid, as one born out of time", as Mr. Broughton reads it; the Septuagint use the same word as the apostle does, when he says the like of himself, 1 Corinthians...
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light. Ver. 16. _Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been_] As an abortive or miscarrying embryo that falleth from the...
_Or with princes that had gold_, &c. My repose and security from worldly anxieties would have been the same with that of those princes who were once celebrated for their wealth, and whose birth entitl...
JOB LONGS FOR DEATH...
or as an hidden, untimely birth I had not been, he would not exist at all, AS INFANTS WHICH NEVER SAW LIGHT. All of them, the builders of great palaces, the rich millionaires, together with the still-...
JOB'S BITTER COMPLAINT (vv.1-26) Though Job would not dare to curse God for his trouble, yet it seems that the presence of his friends only caused a stronger, gradual build-up of bitter distress in...
"OR LIKE. MISCARRIAGE WHICH IS DISCARDED,. WOULD NOT BE, AS INFANTS THAT NEVER SAW LIGHT": Here he wishes that he had been miscarried and thus discarded, literally hidden or buried from. life of suffe...
11-19 Job complained of those present at his birth, for their tender attention to him. No creature comes into the world so helpless as man. God's power and providence upheld our frail lives, and his...
HIDDEN; undiscerned and unregarded. UNTIMELY BIRTH; born before the due time, and therefore extinct. I HAD NOT BEEN, to wit, in the land of the living, of which he here speaketh. AS INFANTS WHICH NEVE...
Job 3:16 hidden H2934 (H8803) child H5309 infants H5768 saw H7200 (H8804) light H216 an hidden -...
CONTENTS: Job tells his misery and despair. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: «Pity thyself» is the devil's most popular sermon to one who will listen to him, for he delights to embitter the saint b...
Job 3:1. _After this opened Job his mouth._ The Masoretic Jews, as well as our modern divines, seem agreed that Job now began the _drama,_ and spake in poetic effusions of _verse._ They say the same o...
_After this opened Job his month, and cursed his day._ THE PERIL OF IMPULSIVE SPEECH In regard to this chapter, containing the first speech of Job, we may remark that it is impossible to approve the...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 3:13 Job describes death as rest from the toil of life. He pictures its effect on people both high and low in society. He wishes he had joined those who were already in this state of r...
NOTES Job 3:5. “_Let the blackness of the day terrify it_.” Margin, “_Let them terrify it as those who have a bitter day_” The expression כִּמרִירֵי־יוֹם (_chimrire-yom_) gives rise to two classes of...
EXPOSITION The "Historical Introduction" ended, we come upon a long colloquy, in which the several _dramatis personae_ speak for themselves, the writer, or compiler, only prefacing each speech with a...
And finally Job spoke up. Job begins to curse the day of his birth. Job opened his mouth, and he cursed his day (Job 3:1). Notice he didn't curse God; just the day in which he was born. Let the day...
1 Corinthians 15:8; Psalms 58:8...
JOB'S SORROWS AND SIGHS Job 2:9; Job 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In this study we will consider the verses which lie in the second chapter of Job beginning with verse nine where we left off in the forme...
Hidden — Undiscerned and unregarded. Born before the due time. Been — In the land of the living....