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Verse Job 3:10. _BECAUSE IT SHUT NOT UP THE DOORS_] Here is the
reason why he curses the day and the night in which he was conceived
and born; because, had he never been brought into existence, he wo...
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BECAUSE IT SHUT NOT UP ... - That is, because the accursed day and
night did not do it. Aben Ezra supposes that God is meant here, and
that the complaint of Job is that he did not close his mother’s
w...
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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
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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...
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_the doors of my mother's womb_ to hinder conception or fruitfulness,
Genesis 20:18; 1 Samuel 1:5. The crime of the night is deferred to the
last, and the curse closes with the mention of it....
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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...
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_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. ...
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_BECAUSE IT SHUT NOT UP THE DOORS OF MY MOTHER'S WOMB, NOR HID SORROW
FROM MINE EYES._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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...
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People are glad to see light in the early morning. Then, they know
that daylight is beginning. Then, their troubles in the night will not
continue. Perhaps they were afraid during the night. But they...
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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...
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כִּ֤י לֹ֣א סָ֭גַר דַּלְתֵ֣י בִטְנִ֑י
וַ יַּסְ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Nor took. Septuagint, "for it would then have freed my eyes from
labour."_...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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BECAUSE IT SHUT NOT UP THE DOORS OF MY [MOTHER'S] WOMB,.... Or "of my
belly" m, or "womb"; which Aben Ezra interprets of the navel, by which
the infant receives its food and nourishment before it is b...
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Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow
from mine eyes.
Ver. 10. Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb] Lest
this curse should seem causeless, and he mad...
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_Because it shut not up my mother's womb_ Because it did not confine
me to the dark prison of the womb, but suffered me to escape from
thence; _nor hid sorrow from mine eyes_ Because it did not keep m...
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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...
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"BECAUSE IT DID NOT SHUT THE OPENING OF MY MOTHER'S WOMB, OR HIDE
TROUBLE FROM MY EYES": He prays that he would have never seen the
light of day, and that being born has simply resulted in his present...
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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....
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BECAUSE IT SHUT NOT UP, to wit, the night or the day; to which those
things are ascribed which were done by others in them, as is frequent
in poetical writings, such as this is. Or, _he_, i.e. God; wh...
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Job 3:10 up H5462 (H8804) doors H1817 womb H990 hide H5641 (H8686)
sorrow H5999 eyes H5869
it shut not -...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 3:3 In skillfully crafted poetry, Job says he wishes
that he had never been born.
⇐ ⇔...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 1:5; Ecclesiastes 11:10; Ecclesiastes 6:3; Genesis 20:18;...
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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...
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It — The night or the day: to which those things are ascribed which
were done by others in them, as is frequent in poetical writings. Womb
— That it might never have brought me forth. Nor hid — Becaus...