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Verse Job 3:5. _LET DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH STAIN IT_]
יגאלהו _yigaluhu_, "pollute or avenge it," from גאל _gaal_,
to _vindicate,_ _avenge_, c. hence גאל _goel_, the nearest of kin,
whose ri...
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LET DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH - The Hebrew word צלמות
_tsalmâveth_ is exceedingly musical and poetical. It is derived from
צל _tsêl_, “a shadow,” and מות _mâveth_, “death;” and
is used to de...
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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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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...
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THE SHADOW OF DEATH. Hebrew. _zalmaveth_. the darkness of death.
STAIN IT. pollute it. Hebrew. _ga'al,_ to pollute; not _ga'al,_ to
redeem....
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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...
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_shadow of death stain it_ Rather, CLAIM IT, lit. _redeem it_. Let it
become part of the possession of darkness. The word, however, does not
mean _re_claim, as if the idea were that the day had been w...
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LET DARKNESS—STAIN IT, &C.— _Let darkness—claim it; let thick
night involve it._ Houbigant; who observes well, that there enters
nothing of pollution into the idea of darkness....
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_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. ...
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_LET DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH STAIN IT; LET A CLOUD DWELL UPON
IT; LET THE BLACKNESS OF THE DAY TERRIFY IT._
Let ... the shadow of death (deepest darkness, Isaiah 9:2)
STAIN IT. This is a la...
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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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STAIN IT] RV 'claim it for their own.' BLACKNESS OF, etc.] RV 'all
that maketh black the day'; e.g. eclipses and unusual darknesses....
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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...
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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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STAIN. — Literally, _redeem_ — _i.e.,_ claim as their rightful
inheritance. The other meaning enters into this word, as in Isaiah
63:3; Malachi 1:7.
BLACKNESS OF THE DAY — _i.e.,_ preternatural darkn...
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יִגְאָלֻ֡הוּ חֹ֣שֶׁךְ וְ֭ צַלְמָוֶת
תִּשְׁכָּן ־עָלָ֣יו...
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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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Let darkness and the (e) shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell
upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
(e) That is, most obscure darkness, which makes them afraid of death
that they a...
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(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....
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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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LET DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH STAIN IT,.... Let there be such
darkness on it as on persons when dying, or in the state of the dead;
hence the sorest afflictions, and the state of man in unregen...
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Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon
it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Ver. 5. _Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it_] Let it be
_dies luctuosus e...
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_Let darkness and the shadow of death_ Let the most dismal darkness,
like that of the place of the dead, which is a _land of darkness_, and
where the _light_ is _darkness, Job 10:21_; or darkness so g...
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Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it, the thickest darkness,
the deepest death-gloom reclaiming and covering it as an unclean
thing; LET A CLOUD DWELL UPON IT, encamping over it, obscuring an...
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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...
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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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STAIN IT:
Or, challenge it
LET THE BLACKNESS OF THE DAY TERRIFY IT:
Or, let them terrify it, as those who have a bitter day...
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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....
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DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH, i.e. a black and dark shadow, like
that of the place of the dead, which is a land of darkness, and where
the _light is darkness_, as Job explains this very phrase, JO...
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Job 3:5 darkness H2822 death H6757 claim H1350 (H8799) cloud H6053
settle H7931 (H8799) blackness H3650 day...
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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 3:1 Dialogue: Job, His Suffering, and His Standing
before God. Between the brief narrative sections of the prologue (Job
1:1) and epilogue ...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 3:3 In skillfully crafted poetry, Job says he wishes
that he had never been born.
⇐ ⇔...
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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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Amos 5:8; Amos 8:10; Deuteronomy 4:11; Ezekiel 30:3; Ezekiel 34:12;...
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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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Death — A black and dark shadow like that of the place of the dead,
which is a land of darkness. Slain — Take away its beauty and glory.
Terrify — That is, men in it. Let it be always observed as a
fr...