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. This
cry of misery is thrice repeated, ever in deepening pathos (Job 3:1;
Job 3:11; Job 3:20).
JOB 3... [ Continue Reading ]
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
of his actual state. In Job 3:20 f. Job generalises from his own
position, to which he returns in Jo... [ Continue Reading ]