Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 3:6
Darkness — Constant and extraordinary darkness, without the least glimmering of light from the moon or stars. Be joined — Reckoned as one, or a part of one of them.
Darkness — Constant and extraordinary darkness, without the least glimmering of light from the moon or stars. Be joined — Reckoned as one, or a part of one of them.
Verse Job 3:6. _AS FOR THAT NIGHT, LET DARKNESS SEIZE UPON IT_] I think the _Targum_ has hit the sense of this whole verse: "Let darkness seize upon that night; let it not be reckoned among the annual...
As for “that night.” Job, having cursed the day, proceeds to utter a malediction on the “night” also; see Job 3:3. This malediction extends to Job 3:9. LET DARKNESS SEIZE UPON IT - Hebrew, Let it take...
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...
DARKNESS. intense or thick darkness. Hebrew. _'ophel._ Not _hashak_ (verses: Job 3:4; Job 3:5; Job 3:9) which is less intense....
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...
_let it not be joined unto_ Rather, LET IT NOT REJOICE AMONG. Let it not enter the joyful troop of days, glad in its existence and its beauty. Another way of spelling the word gives the meaning, let i...
_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. ...
_AS FOR THAT NIGHT, LET DARKNESS SEIZE UPON IT; LET IT NOT BE JOINED UNTO THE DAYS OF THE YEAR, LET IT NOT COME INTO THE NUMBER OF THE MONTHS._ Seize upon it - as its prey; i:e., utterly dissolve it....
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...
LET IT NOT BE JOINED, etc.] let it be blotted out of the calendar. The ancients believed in lucky and unlucky days. Let this day ruin no more lives, it has ruined enough....
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...
So Job then thought about the night when his parents came together. On that night, Job’s life began, so Job regretted that night also. Of course, every night belongs in the calendar. But Job did not w...
LET IT NOT BE JOINED. — Rather, _let it not rejoice among,_ as one of the glorious procession of nights....
הַ לַּ֥יְלָה הַ הוּא֮ יִקָּחֵ֪ה֫וּ אֹ֥פֶל אַל
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...
(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...
AS [FOR] THAT NIGHT,.... The night of conception; Job imprecated evils on the day he was born, now on the night he was conceived in, the returns of it: LET DARKNESS SEIZE UPON IT; let it not only he...
As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. Ver. 6. _As for that night, let darkness seize upon it_...
_As for that night, let darkness seize upon it_ Constant and extraordinary darkness, without the least glimmering of light from the moon or stars; darkness to the highest degree possible. Thus, as Job...
JOB CURSES THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH. Up till now Job had suppressed all thoughts of rebellion against God, every notion of dissatisfaction and impatience with the ways of Jehovah. But now he gives evide...
As for that night, let darkness seize upon it, everlasting darkness holding it in its possession; LET IT NOT BE JOINED UNTO THE DAYS OF THE YEAR, rather, "let it not be glad of its existence among the...
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...
LET IT NOT BE JOINED UNTO THE DAYS: Or, let it not rejoice among the days...
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....
LET DARKNESS SEIZE UPON IT, i. e. constant and extraordinary darkness, without the least glimmering of light from the moon or stars. JOINED UNTO THE DAYS OF THE YEAR, i.e. reckoned as one, or a part o...
Job 3:6 night H3915 darkness H652 seize H3947 (H8799) rejoice H2302 (H8799) days H3117 year H8141 come...
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 ...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 3:3 In skillfully crafted poetry, Job says he wishes that he had never been born. ⇐ ⇔...
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...
Exodus 2:2; Genesis 49:6; Isaiah 14:20; Job 29:2; Job 39:2;...
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...