George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 3:22
Grave, full of stores, or the place where they may repose. (Haydock)
Grave, full of stores, or the place where they may repose. (Haydock)
Verse Job 3:22. _WHICH REJOICE EXCEEDINGLY_.] Literally, _They rejoice_ _with joy_, and _exult when they find the grave_. There is a various reading here in one of _Kennicott's_ MSS., which gives a...
WHICH REJOICE EXCEEDINGLY - Hebrew “Who rejoice upon joy or exultation” (אל־גיל _'el_-_gı̂yl_), that is, with exceedingly great joy. WHEN THEY CAN FIND THE GRAVE - What an expression! How strikingly d...
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
Why does God continue life to the wretch who longs for death? Job's words again rise to a passionate intensity. The vision of the peacefulness of death vanishes, and he reawakens to the consciousness...
GRAVE. sepulchre. Hebrew. _keber._ See App-35....
_rejoice exceedingly_ lit. _rejoice even to exultation_, Hosea 9:1....
Why does God continue life to the wretched, who long for death? The vision of the peacefulness of death passes away, and Job awakens again to the consciousness of his real condition, and his words, w...
3. And why he should go on living (Job 3:20-26) TEXT 3:20-26 20 WHEREFORE IS LIGHT GIVEN TO HIM THAT IS IN MISERY, And life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Who long for death, but it cometh not, And...
_WHICH LONG FOR DEATH, BUT IT COMETH NOT; AND DIG FOR IT MORE THAN FOR HID TREASURES;_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
There may be a connexion of thought here with the 'hid treasures' of Job 3:21. The idea is perhaps that of violating an ancient tomb. The entrance was usually hidden carefully....
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...
Job was able to sympathise with other people because of his own troubles. Job always cared about other people (Job 29:12-17). But now Job knew how they suffered....
הַ שְּׂמֵחִ֥ים אֱלֵי ־גִ֑יל יָ֝שִׂ֗ישׂוּ כִּ֣י...
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...
(20) В¶ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; (21) Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; (22) Which rejoic...
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...
WHICH REJOICE EXCEEDINGLY,.... Or, "which joy till they do skip again", as Mr. Broughton renders it, and to the same purport others d; are so elated as to skip and dance for joy: [AND] ARE GLAD WHEN...
Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave? Ver. 22. _Which rejoice exceedingly_] Joy till they skip again, so Broughton rendereth it. Strange that any should be so glad...
_Which rejoice exceedingly, when they can find the grave_ To be thus impatient of life, for the sake of the trouble we meet with, is not only unnatural in itself, but ungrateful to the Giver of life,...
which rejoice exceedingly, in an excess of jubilation, AND ARE GLAD WHEN THEY CAN FIND THE GRAVE? It is a cry of extreme anguish which longs for deliverance by death and is unable to explain why this...
JOB LONGS FOR DEATH...
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...
"WHO REJOICE GREATLY, AND EXULT WHEN THEY FIND THE GRAVE?" Job feels that the dead rejoice because they are finally released from their suffering. Yet this would only be true for the righteous (Philip...
20-26 Job was like a man who had lost his way, and had no prospect of escape, or hope of better times. But surely he was in an ill frame for death when so unwilling to live. Let it be our constant ca...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Job 3:22 rejoice H8056 exceedingly H1524 glad H7797 (H8799) find H4672 (H8799) grave H6913...
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 3:20 The final sequence of “why” questions reflects Job’s current miserable state. ⇐ ⇔...
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...
Daniel 1:10; Genesis 23:4; Hosea 9:1; Isaiah 16:10; Jeremiah 48:33;...
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...
Glad, &c. — To be thus impatient of life, for the sake of the trouble we meet with, is not only unnatural in itself, but ungrateful to the giver of life, and shews a sinful indulgence of our own passi...