George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 3:25
Fear. In prosperity he feared the assaults of pride. Now he is in danger of yielding to impatience and despair. (Calmet)
Fear. In prosperity he feared the assaults of pride. Now he is in danger of yielding to impatience and despair. (Calmet)
Verse Job 3:25. _FOR THE THING WHICH I GREATLY REARED_] Literally, _the_ _fear that I feared_; or, _l feared a fear_, as in the _margin_. While I was in prosperity I thought adversity might come, and...
FOR THE THING WHICH I GREATLY FEARED - Margin, As in the Hebrew “I feared a fear, and it came upon me.” This verse, with the following, has received a considerable variety of exposition. Many have und...
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...
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...
FOR MY SIGHING COMETH BEFORE I EAT— _My groaning cometh like my daily bread._ Heath. _In presence of my meat,_ or _at my meals,_ says Peters. _And my roarings are poured out like the waters; i.e._ whi...
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...
_FOR THE THING WHICH I GREATLY FEARED IS COME UPON ME, AND THAT WHICH I WAS AFRAID OF IS COME UNTO ME._ The thing which I ... feared is come upon me. In the beginning of his trials, when he heard of...
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...
Job wanted rest and quiet. He even wanted to be dead, so that he could sleep. But instead, he was always suffering. Nothing seemed to help him. And nothing comforted him. Job’s friends were sad when...
FOR THE THING WHICH I GREATLY FEARED... — Comp. Proverbs 28:14. It means that he had always had in remembrance the uncertainty and instability of earthly things, an yet he had been overtaken by a cala...
כִּ֤י פַ֣חַד פָּ֭חַדְתִּי וַ יֶּאֱתָיֵ֑נִי וַ...
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...
For the thing which I greatly (p) feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. (p) In my prosperity I looked for a fall, as it now has come to pass....
(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...
FOR THE THING WHICH I GREATLY FEARED IS COME UPON ME,.... Some refer this to his fears about his children, lest they should sin and offend God, and bring down his judgments on them, and now what he fe...
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. Ver. 25. _For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me_] Heb. I feared a fear, and it cam...
_For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me_ Before this flood of misery was poured upon me, I was indeed under great and strong apprehensions, which I could not account for, of something or...
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, if he but thought of a terrible thing, he was immediately struck by it, AND THAT WHICH I WAS AFRAID OF IS COME UNTO ME, if he dreaded a thing, he...
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...
THE THING WHICH I GREATLY FEARED IS COME UPON ME: _ Heb._ I feared a fear, and it came upon me...
"FOR WHAT. FEAR COMES UPON ME, AND WHAT. DREAD BEFALLS ME": Many feel that when Job had heard of the loss of one blessing he feared that he would lose others. "He probably means that as difficulties b...
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...
This is another reason why he is weary of his life, and why he repents that ever he was born, because he never enjoyed any solid and secure comfort. THE THING WHICH I GREATLY FEARED IS COME UPON ME. H...
Job 3:25 greatly H6343 feared H6342 (H8804) come H857 (H8799) dreaded H3025 (H8804) happened H935 ...
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...
Job 1:5; Job 31:23...
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...
Feared — Even in the time of my prosperity, I was full of fears, considering the variety of God's providences, the changeableness of this vain world, God's justice, and the sinfulness of all mankind....