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Job 3:1
After this opened Job his mouth, in the formal manner, with deliberation and gravity, after the custom of the ancient sages, and cursed his day, namely, the day of his birth.
After this opened Job his mouth, in the formal manner, with deliberation and gravity, after the custom of the ancient sages, and cursed his day, namely, the day of his birth.
CHAPTER III _Job curses the day of his birth, and regrets that he ever saw_ _the light_, 1-12. _Describes the empire of death and its inhabitants_, 13-19. _Regrets that he is appointed to live in...
AFTER THIS - Dr. Good renders this, “at length.” It means after the long silence of his friends, and after he saw that there was no prospect of relief or of consolation. OPENED JOB HIS MOUTH - The usu...
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...
AFTER THIS: i.e. after this long restraint. CURSED. Here we have the Hebrew _kalal,_ which was in the primitive text. See note on Job 1:5. HIS DAY: i.e. his birthday. Compare Job 3:3....
_cursed his day_ The day of his birth. Reverent minds have always found difficulty in accommodating themselves to the religious boldness of the Book of Job. A curious instance of this is given in the...
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...
DISCOURSE: 453 JOB CURSES THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH Job 3:1. _After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day_. IT is Worthy of observation, that the most eminent saints mentioned in the sacred record...
_JOB DETESTS THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH; WISHES THAT HE HAD NEVER BEEN BORN, AND COMPLAINS THAT THE THING WHICH HE FEARED IS COME UPON HIM._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 3:1. AFTER THIS OPENED JOB HIS MOUTH...
_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. ...
_AFTER THIS OPENED JOB HIS MOUTH, AND CURSED HIS DAY._ Opened Job his mouth. The Orientals speaks seldom, and then sententiously. Hence, this formula, expressing deliberation and gravity (Psalms 78:2...
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...
HIS DAY] the day of his birth. It was thought that the days of the year had an existence of their own, so that any given day would come round again in its turn. Hence Job is not cursing a day which lo...
Job’s friends waited for Job to speak. They waited for an entire week. At last, Job spoke. Job explained that he was very sad. His life seemed to have no value. He felt as if he was waiting to die. J...
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...
III. (1) AFTER THIS OPENED JOB HIS MOUTH. — There is a striking similarity between this chapter and Jeremiah 20:14, so much so that one must be borrowed from the other; the question is, which is the o...
אַחֲרֵי ־כֵ֗ן פָּתַ֤ח אִיֹּוב֙ אֶת ־פִּ֔יהוּ...
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...
After this opened (a) Job his mouth, and (b) cursed his day. (a) The seven days ended, (Job 2:13). (b) Here Job begins to feel his great imperfection in this battle between the spirit and the flesh,...
Cursed his day. Job cursed the day of his birth, not by way of wishing evil to any thing of God's creation; but only to express in a stronger manner his sense of human miseries in general, and of his...
CONTENTS We have in this chapter, the complaints of Jobadiah The whole, from beginning to end, is an unceasing lamentation. The afflicted mourner dwells much upon the miseries of life, and the happin...
(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...
AFTER THIS OPENED JOB HIS MOUTH,.... order to speak, and began to speak of his troubles and afflictions, and the sense he had of them; for though, this phrase may sometimes signify to speak aloud, cle...
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. Ver. 1. _After this_] After so long silence of his friends, and to provoke them to speak, who haply waited for some words from him first, as knowi...
_After this Job opened his mouth_ The days of mourning being now over, and no hopes appearing of Job's amendment, but his afflictions rather increasing, he bursts into a severe lamentation; he wishes...
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...
At the end of the book we will be informed that Job will say some things during his suffering that are not true (Job 38:2; Job 42:3-6), that actually cloud the issue rather than throwing light upon 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....
JOB CHAPTER 3 Job curseth the day and services of his birth, JOB 3:1. The ease and honours of death, JOB 3:13. Life in anguish matter of complaint, JOB 3:20. What he feared is now come upon him,...
Job 3:1 After H310 Job H347 opened H6605 (H8804) mouth H6310 cursed H7043 (H8762) day H3117 After -...
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 3:1 Dialogue: Job, His Suffering, and His Standing before God. Between the brief narrative sections of the prologue (Job 1:1) and epilogue ...
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...
Jeremiah 20:14; Jeremiah 20:15; Job 1:11; Job 1:22; Job 2:10;...
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...
His day — His birth — day, in vain do some endeavour to excuse this and the following speeches of Job, who afterwards is reproved by God, and severely accuseth himself for them, Job 38:2, Job 40:4, Jo...