"With kings and with counselors of the earth": Clearly the realm of the dead is not one of unconsciousness or annihilation, for Job sees death as being. realm filled with great men of the past. He would join such exalted personalities. "Who rebuilt ruins for themselves": This does not refer to the pyramids build by pharaohs as some commentators have supposed, rather it means that they either built cities that became ruins, or rebuilt ruined cities.
Verse Job 3:14. _WITH KINGS AND COUNSELLORS OF THE EARTH_] I believe this translation to be perfectly correct. The _counsellors_, יעצי yoatsey, I suppose to mean the privy council, or advisers of kin...
WITH KINGS - Reposing as they do. This is the language of calm meditation on what would have been the consequence if he had died when he was an infant. He seems to delight to dwell on it. He contrasts...
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...
DESOLATE PLACES. ruins: i.e. places (tombs or monuments) already going to ruins....
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...
_which built desolate places_ The expression seems to be that which occurs several times in Scripture, e.g. Isaiah 58:12; Isaiah 61:4; Ezekiel 36:10; E
WHICH BUILT DESOLATE PLACES— The Hebrew word חרבות _charaboth_ rendered _desolate places,_ comes from an Arabic root, denoting buildings of the pompous kind; and so may signify apartments of great ele...
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...
_WITH KINGS AND COUNSELLORS OF THE EARTH, WHICH BUILT DESOLATE PLACES FOR THEMSELVES;_ With kings ... which built desolate places for themselves - who built up for themselves what proved to be (not p...
3:14 themselves, (d-13) Or 'who ruined buildings.'...
DESOLATE PLACES] RM 'solitary piles': cp. the pyramids of Egypt, which were the royal burying-places. 15-19. In reading these verses, in spite of their great beauty, we cannot help contrasting the vag...
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...
These men worked hard. They built palaces. They led great armies. They achieved many things. But now, they must sleep. Their palaces are heaps of stone. Someone else owns their gold and silver now. An...
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...
DESOLATE PLACES — i.e., gorgeous tombs and splendid sepulchres, which, being tenanted only by the dead, are desolate; or it may mean that the places so built of old are now ruined and desolate. In the...
עִם ־מְ֭לָכִים וְ יֹ֣עֲצֵי אָ֑רֶץ הַ בֹּנִ֖ים
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...
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built (k) desolate places for themselves; (k) He notes the ambition of them who for their pleasure as it were change the order of nature, and build in m...
_Consuls. Hebrew, "counsellors," or any in great authority. Septuagint, "kings, the counsellors of the land, who rejoiced, boasting of their swords." The same word, choraboth, (Haydock) means both swo...
(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...
WITH THE KINGS AND COUNSELLORS OF THE EARTH,.... From whom he might descend, he being a person of great distinction and figure; and so, had he died, he would have been buried in the sepulchres of his...
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; Ver. 14. _With kings and counsellors of the earth_] _q.d._ Those that here have been most negotious, and (as the n...
_For_ now _should I have lain still, and been quiet_ Free from those torments of body, and that anguish of mind, which now oppress me. _With kings and counsellors of the earth_ I had then been as happ...
JOB LONGS FOR DEATH...
with kings and counselors of the earth, the highest officers of the state, the royal advisers and ministers, WHICH BUILT DESOLATE PLACES FOR THEMSELVES, who erected for themselves what proved to be, n...
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...
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...
WITH KINGS; I had then been as happy as the proudest monarchs, who after all their great achievements and enjoyments go down into their graves, where I also should have been sweetly reposed. WHICH BUI...
Job 3:14 kings H4428 counselors H3289 (H8802) earth H776 built H1129 (H8802) ruins H2723 kings -...
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 3:13 Job describes death as rest from the toil of life. He pictures its effect on people both high and low in society. He wishes he had joined those who were already in this state of r...
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...
1 Kings 11:43; 1 Kings 2:10; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Ezekiel 26:20;...
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...
Kings — I had then been as happy as the proudest monarchs, who after all their great achievements and enjoyments, go down into their graves. Built — Who to shew their wealth and power, or to leave beh...