George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 3:7
Praise, by the appearance of the stars, chap. xxxviii. 7. (Calmet)
Praise, by the appearance of the stars, chap. xxxviii. 7. (Calmet)
Verse Job 3:7. _LO, LET THAT NIGHT BE SOLITARY_] The word הנה _hinneh,_ _behold_, or _lo_, is wanting in one of _De Rossi's_ MSS., nor is it expressed in the _Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac_, or _Arabic_...
LO, LET THAT NIGHT BE SOLITARY - Dr. Good, “O! that night! Let it be a barren rock!” Noyes, “O let that night be unfruitful!” Herder, “Let that night be set apart by itself.” The Hebrew word used here...
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...
LO. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6....
Would God I had never been conceived or born This is the idea really expressed when Job curses his day and wishes it blotted out of existence. First he curses the day of his birth and the night of hi...
_be solitary_ Rather perhaps, _barren_, as Isaiah 49:21. Let it not experience a parent's joy, and le nought that lives date its birth from it. _no joyful voice_ of birthday rejoicing....
LET THAT NIGHT BE SOLITARY— _Be full of grief._ Houbigant; which is the proper contrast to the following clause; for we here observe, once for all, that the poetry of Job is of the same kind with that...
_THE MEANING OF SILENCE_ Chapter s 314 I. NO EXIT: HELL IS OTHER PEOPLESartre SPEECHES FULL OF SOUND AND FURY Job 3:1, Job 14:22 A. WHY ME, LORD? (Job 3:1-26) 1. He curses his day. ...
_LO, LET THAT NIGHT BE SOLITARY, LET NO JOYFUL VOICE COME THEREIN._ Solitary - rather, unfruitful. 'Would that it had not given birth to me' (Maurer and Umbreit)....
SOLITARY] RV 'barren.' NO JOYFUL VOICE] as on the occasion of a birth....
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...
If that night never existed, no baby’s life could begin then. And Job would not be born. Job’s parents would not be glad about his birth. But Job thought that their happiness was stupid. He thought th...
הִנֵּ֤ה הַ לַּ֣יְלָה הַ֭ הוּא יְהִ֣י גַלְמ֑וּ
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...
(1) В¶ After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. (2) And Job spake, and said, (3) Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived....
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...
LO, LET THAT NIGHT BE SOLITARY,.... Let there be no company for journeys, or doing any business; no meetings of friends, neighbours, or relations on it, for refreshment, pleasure, and recreation, afte...
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. Ver. 7. _Lo, let that night be solitary_] And so consequently sorrowful; for aloneness is comfortless, _et optimum solatium sodalitiu...
_Let that night be solitary_ Destitute of all society of men, meeting and feasting together. Let it afford no entertainment or pleasure of any kind; _let no joyful voice come therein_ No music, no har...
Lo, let that night be solitary, or, more forceful, "See, that night!" Let it be barren, and therefore utterly desolate, without a cheering voice; LET NO JOYFUL VOICE COME THEREIN, not a single jubilan...
JOB CURSES THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH. Up till now Job had suppressed all thoughts of rebellion against God, every notion of dissatisfaction and impatience with the ways of Jehovah. But now he gives evide...
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...
"BEHOLD, LET THAT NIGHT BE BARREN": Literally, "stony", because stony ground is unproductive, meaning that his mother would have been barren and thus unable to conceive him. "LET NO JOY SHOUT ENTER IT...
1-10 For seven days Job's friends sat by him in silence, without offering consolidation: at the same time Satan assaulted his mind to shake his confidence, and to fill him with hard thoughts of God....
SOLITARY, i.e. destitute of all society of men meeting and feasting together, which commonly was done at night, suppers being the most solemn meals among divers ancient nations. See Mark 6:21 Luke 14:...
Job 3:7 night H3915 barren H1565 shout H7445 come H935 (H8799) solitary - Isaiah 13:20-22,...
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 3:3 In skillfully crafted poetry, Job says he wishes that he had never been born. ⇐ ⇔...
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...
Isaiah 13:20; Isaiah 24:8; Jeremiah 7:34; Revelation 18:22;...
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...