"May that day be darkness; let not God above care for it, nor light shine on it": "Job hoped that God, by not noticing that day, would therefore not notice him" (Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 722). "He wished that day (the day of his birth) could be so annihilated that even God would forget it" (Gaebelein p. 890).
Verse Job 3:4. _LET THAT DAY BE DARKNESS_] The meaning is exactly the same with our expression, "Let it be blotted out of the calendar." However distinguished it may have been, as the birthday of a m...
LET THAT DAY BE DARKNESS - Let it not be day; or, O, that it had not been day, that the sun had not risen, and that it had been night. LET NOT GOD REGARD IT FROM ABOVE - The word rendered here “regard...
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. Hebrew. _hashak._ GOD. Hebrew Eloah. See App-4....
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...
_regard it_ lit. _seek after it_, or care for it. Let it perish from His mind that He cause no sun to rise upon it....
_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. ...
_LET THAT DAY BE DARKNESS; LET NOT GOD REGARD IT FROM ABOVE, NEITHER LET THE LIGHT SHINE UPON IT._ Let not God regard it - rather, more poetically, Seek it out х_ DAARASH_ (H1875)]. 'Let not God stoo...
3:4 +God (b-10) Heb. _ Eloah_ . see Note, Genesis 1:1 . The word occurs many times in Job....
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, 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...
Job wished that he had never lived. He used many words to explain this thought. He imagined that the skies were dark on the day of his birth. Such a day would be a terrible day. But the day would stil...
REGARD. — Literally, _require, ask for, and so manifest_ _care about._ (Comp. Deuteronomy 11:12.)...
הַ יֹּ֥ום הַ ה֗וּא יְֽהִ֫י חֹ֥שֶׁךְ אַֽל
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...
Let that day be darkness; let not God (d) regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. (d) Let it be put out of the number of days, and let it not have the sight of the sun to separate...
(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...
LET THAT DAY BE DARKNESS,.... Not only dark, but darkness itself, extremely dark; and which is to be understood not figuratively of the darkness of affliction and calamity; this Job would not wish for...
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Ver. 4. _Let that day be darkness_] Thick darkness, as that once was in Egypt, Exodus 10:28. A day of...
_Let that day be darkness_ I wish the sun had never risen on that day; or, which is the same thing, that it had never been: and whensoever that day returns, instead of the cheering and refreshing beam...
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...
Let that day be darkness, be covered with the everlasting shadows of death; LET NOT GOD REGARD IT FROM ABOVE, in any way inquire after it, as though interested in such an execrable time, NEITHER LET T...
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...
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....
I wish the sun had never risen upon that day to make it day, or, which is all one, that it had never been; and whensoever that day returns, I wish it may be black, and gloomy, and uncomfortable, and t...
Job 3:4 day H3117 darkness H2822 God H433 above H4605 seek H1875 (H8799) light H5105 shine H3313 ...
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...
Acts 27:20; Amos 5:18; Deuteronomy 11:12; Exodus 10:22; Exodus 10:23;...
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...
Darkness — I wish the sun had never risen upon that day, or, which is all one, that it had never been; and whensoever that day returns, I wish it may be black, and gloomy, and uncomfortable. Regard —...