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Job 3:11
Why died I not from the womb, immediately after birth? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Why died I not from the womb, immediately after birth? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Verse Job 3:11. _WHY DIED I NOT FROM THE WOMB_] As the other circumstance did not take place, why was I not _still-born_, without the possibility of reviviscence? or, as this did not occur, why did I...
WHY DIED I NOT FROM THE WOMB? - Why did I not die as soon as I was born? Why were any pains taken to keep me alive? The suggestion of this question leads Job in the following verses into the beautiful...
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...
WHY... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. FROM. in, or within. GIVE UP THE GHOST. die. Hebrew. _gava',_ to expire. Compare Job 10:18; Job 13:19; Job 14:10....
Would God I had died from my birth If he must be born, Job asks, Why he did not die from the womb? his eye turning to the next possibility and chance of escaping sorrow. Had he died he would have bee...
WHY DIED I NOT FROM THE WOMB?— The LXX render it, _in the womb._ See Jeremiah 20:17 and Noldius, p. 153. The _breasts that I should suck,_ in the next verse, would be rendered more properly, _the brea...
2. Asks why he was born (Job 3:11-19) TEXT 3:11-19 11 WHY DIED I NOT FROM THE WOMB? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? 12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, th...
_WHY DIED I NOT FROM THE WOMB? WHY DID I NOT GIVE UP THE GHOST WHEN I CAME OUT OF THE BELLY?_ Died ... from the womb - why died I not as soon as I came forth from the womb?...
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 imagined that he had died as a child. Job thought that death was beautiful because of his terrible troubles. He thought about dead bodies. Dead bodies seem to be asleep. And Job wished that he cou...
לָ֤מָּה לֹּ֣א מֵ רֶ֣חֶם אָמ֑וּת מִ בֶּ֖טֶן
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...
(h) Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? (h) This, and that which follows declares, that when man gives place to his passions, he is not abl...
_In the. Hebrew, "from the womb," (Haydock) or as soon as I was born. (Calmet) --- He seems to have lost sight of original sin, (ver. 1.) or there might be some method of having it remitted to childre...
(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...
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...
WHY DIED I NOT FROM THE WOMB?.... That is, as soon as he came out of it; or rather, as soon as he was in it, or from the time that he was in it; or however, while he was in it, that so he might not ha...
Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? Ver. 11. _Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost? &c._] Why was I not forthwith...
_Why died I not from the womb?_ It would surely have been far better, and much happier for me, had I either expired in the womb where I received my life, or it had been taken from me the very moment m...
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...
"WHY DID. NOT DIE AT BIRTH, COME FORTH FROM THE WOMB AND EXPIRE?": Notice the repetition of the word "why" in this section (Job 3:12). Here is the common question echoed by so many since Job, "Why God...
11-19 Job complained of those present at his birth, for their tender attention to him. No creature comes into the world so helpless as man. God's power and providence upheld our frail lives, and his...
FROM THE WOMB, i.e. as soon as ever I was born, or come out of the womb. And the same thing is expressed in other words, which is an elegancy usual both in the Hebrew and in other languages....
Job 3:11 die H4191 (H8799) birth H7358 perish H1478 (H8799) came H3318 (H8804) womb H990 died I -...
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...
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...
Hosea 9:14; Isaiah 46:3; Jeremiah 15:10; Psalms 139:13; Psalms 22:10
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...