Quiet — I did not misbehave myself in prosperity, abusing it by presumption, and security, but I lived circumspectly, walking humbly with God, and working out my salvation with fear and trembling. Therefore in this sense also, his way was hid, he knew not why God contended with him.
Verse Job 3:26. _I WAS NOT IN SAFETY_] If this verse be read _interrogatively_, it will give a good and easy sense: _Was I not_ _in safety? Had I not rest? Was I not in comfort? Yet trouble came_. It...
I WAS NOT IN SAFETY - That is, I have, or I had no peace. שׁלה _shâlâh_ Septuagint, οὔτε εἰρήνευσα _oute_ _eirēneusa_ - “I had no peace.” The sense is, that his mind had been disturbed with fea...
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
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...
Why does God continue life to the wretched, who long for death? The vision of the peacefulness of death passes away, and Job awakens again to the consciousness of his real condition, and his words, w...
FOR MY SIGHING COMETH BEFORE I EAT— _My groaning cometh like my daily bread._ Heath. _In presence of my meat,_ or _at my meals,_ says Peters. _And my roarings are poured out like the waters; i.e._ whi...
3. And why he should go on living (Job 3:20-26) TEXT 3:20-26 20 WHEREFORE IS LIGHT GIVEN TO HIM THAT IS IN MISERY, And life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Who long for death, but it cometh not, And...
_I WAS NOT IN SAFETY, NEITHER HAD I REST, NEITHER WAS I QUIET; YET TROUBLE CAME._ I was not in safety ... yet trouble came - referring, not to his former state but to the beginning of his troubles. F...
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 wanted rest and quiet. He even wanted to be dead, so that he could sleep. But instead, he was always suffering. Nothing seemed to help him. And nothing comforted him. Job’s friends were sad when...
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...
לֹ֤א שָׁלַ֨וְתִּי ׀ וְ לֹ֖א שָׁקַ֥טְתִּי וְֽ...
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...
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; (q) yet trouble came. (q) The fear of troubles that would ensue, caused my prosperity to seem to me as nothing, and yet I am not exempted...
Dissembled my sufferings, making no complaint, not only during the seven days that his friends had been with him, but long before. Hebrew and Septuagint, "I was not in safety, nor at rest; neither was...
(20) В¶ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; (21) Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; (22) Which rejoic...
REFLECTIONS PONDER, my soul, over this view of Job; and behold in him, whose patience is so highly testified of by the Holy Ghost, what man is in his highest attainments. Oh! precious Jesus! lamb of G...
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...
I WAS NOT IN SAFETY,.... This cannot refer to the time of his prosperity; for he certainly then was in safety, God having set an hedge about him, so that none of his enemies, nor even Satan himself, c...
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. Ver. 26. _I was not in safety_] _i.e._ I counted not myself simply the safer and happier man, because of creature comfo...
_I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet_ Three expressions denoting the same thing, which was also signified in the verse immediately preceding, namely, that even in his prospero...
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quite, he was so troubled then that he had neither respite nor repose; YET TROUBLE CAME, it was coming upon him in an endless stream. Thus even b...
JOB LONGS FOR DEATH...
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...
"I AM NOT AT EASE, NOR AM. QUIET, AND. AM NOT AT REST, BUT TURMOIL COMES": Job is definitely not at peace and neither is he content (Philippians 4:10-13). CLOSING COMMENTS · Here Job voices not the...
20-26 Job was like a man who had lost his way, and had no prospect of escape, or hope of better times. But surely he was in an ill frame for death when so unwilling to live. Let it be our constant ca...
The three expressions note the same thing, which also was signified in the next foregoing verse, to wit, that even in his prosperous days he never was secure or at rest from the torment of fear and an...
Job 3:26 ease H7951 (H8804) quiet H8252 (H8804) rest H5117 (H8804) trouble H7267 comes H935 ...
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...
_Yet trouble came._ TROUBLE AND USEFULNESS What a heathen would have called “the blind and infamous dispensations of fortune,” Christians speak of as the unlikelihoods and inequalities of the provide...
_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 3:20 The final sequence of “why” questions reflects Job’s current miserable state. ⇐ ⇔...
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...
Job 27:9; Psalms 143:11...
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...