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Verse Job 3:22. _WHICH REJOICE EXCEEDINGLY_.] Literally, _They
rejoice_ _with joy_, and _exult when they find the grave_.
There is a various reading here in one of _Kennicott's_ MSS., which
gives a...
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WHICH REJOICE EXCEEDINGLY - Hebrew “Who rejoice upon joy or
exultation” (אל־גיל _'el_-_gı̂yl_), that is, with
exceedingly great joy.
WHEN THEY CAN FIND THE GRAVE - What an expression! How strikingly d...
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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
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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...
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GRAVE. sepulchre. Hebrew. _keber._ See App-35....
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_rejoice exceedingly_ lit. _rejoice even to exultation_, Hosea 9:1....
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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...
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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...
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_WHICH LONG FOR DEATH, BUT IT COMETH NOT; AND DIG FOR IT MORE THAN FOR
HID TREASURES;_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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...
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There may be a connexion of thought here with the 'hid treasures' of
Job 3:21. The idea is perhaps that of violating an ancient tomb. The
entrance was usually hidden carefully....
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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...
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Job was able to sympathise with other people because of his own
troubles. Job always cared about other people (Job 29:12-17). But now
Job knew how they suffered....
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הַ שְּׂמֵחִ֥ים אֱלֵי ־גִ֑יל
יָ֝שִׂ֗ישׂוּ כִּ֣י...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Grave, full of stores, or the place where they may repose. (Haydock)_...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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WHICH REJOICE EXCEEDINGLY,.... Or, "which joy till they do skip
again", as Mr. Broughton renders it, and to the same purport others d;
are so elated as to skip and dance for joy:
[AND] ARE GLAD WHEN...
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Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the
grave?
Ver. 22. _Which rejoice exceedingly_] Joy till they skip again, so
Broughton rendereth it. Strange that any should be so glad...
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_Which rejoice exceedingly, when they can find the grave_ To be thus
impatient of life, for the sake of the trouble we meet with, is not
only unnatural in itself, but ungrateful to the Giver of life,...
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which rejoice exceedingly, in an excess of jubilation, AND ARE GLAD
WHEN THEY CAN FIND THE GRAVE? It is a cry of extreme anguish which
longs for deliverance by death and is unable to explain why this...
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JOB LONGS FOR DEATH...
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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...
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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Job 3:22 rejoice H8056 exceedingly H1524 glad H7797 (H8799) find H4672
(H8799) grave H6913...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 3:20 The final sequence of “why” questions
reflects Job’s current miserable state.
⇐ ⇔...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Daniel 1:10; Genesis 23:4; Hosea 9:1; Isaiah 16:10; Jeremiah 48:33;...
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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...
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Glad, &c. — To be thus impatient of life, for the sake of the
trouble we meet with, is not only unnatural in itself, but ungrateful
to the giver of life, and shews a sinful indulgence of our own
passi...