Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 3:8
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are (f) ready to raise up their mourning.
(f) Who curse the day of their birth, let them lay that curse on this night.
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are (f) ready to raise up their mourning.
(f) Who curse the day of their birth, let them lay that curse on this night.
Verse Job 3:8. _LET THEM CURSE IT THAT CURSE THE DAY_] This translation is scarcely intelligible. I have waded through a multitude of interpretations, without being able to collect from them such a n...
LET THEM CURSE IT WHO CURSE THE DAY - This entire verse is exceedingly difficult, and many different expositions have been given of it. It seems evident that it refers to some well-known class of pers...
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...
THEIR MOURNING. a dragon. Referring probably to what the constellation signified....
The most probable sense of this verse is, Let them that curse days curse it, Them that are skilled to rouse up the Dragon. They that curse days or the day are enchanters and magicians, who were bel...
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...
CURSE THE DAY, WHO ARE READY TO RAISE UP THEIR MOURNING— Houbigant renders it, _May those curse it, who dread the day, who are ready to rouze the Leviathan._ The word כבה _kabah_ rendered _curse,_ say...
_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 THEM CURSE IT THAT CURSE THE DAY, WHO ARE READY TO RAISE UP THEIR MOURNING._ Them ... that curse the day. If mourning be the right rendering in the latter clause of this verse; these words refer...
3:8 Leviathan; (c-14) See Job 41:1 ; Psalms 74:14 ; Psalms 104:26 ; Isaiah 27:1 ....
LET THEM CURSE IT THAT CURSE THE DAY] A reference to magicians who professed to be able to cast spells on a day and make it unlucky, apparently causing eclipses, as the next line suggests. WHO ARE REA...
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 was angry about the day when he was born. He wanted people to curse that day. He did not care if they woke a crocodile! A crocodile is a strong animal. If you wake a crocodile, it will attack you!...
THAT CURSE THE DAY — i.e., Let those who proclaim days unlucky or accursed curse that day as pre-eminently so; or let them recollect that day as a standard or sample of cursing. “Let it be as cursed a...
יִקְּבֻ֥הוּ אֹרְרֵי ־יֹ֑ום הָ֝ עֲתִידִ֗ים עֹרֵ֥ר...
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...
Day. The nations of Ethiopia, under the line, curse the sun as their greatest enemy. (Strabo xvii.) (Pliny, [Natural History?] v. 8.) --- They also brave the fury of the leviathan or crocodile, chap....
(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...
LET THEM CURSE IT THAT CURSE THE DAY,.... Their own day, either their birthday, or any day on which evil befalls them; and now such as are used to this, Job would have them, while they were cursing th...
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. Ver. 8. _Let them curse it, that curse the day_] As those _atri et tetri Atlantes_ (before spoken of) curse the rising...
_Let them curse it that curse the day_ That is, their birth-day: when their afflictions move them to curse their own birth-day, let them remember mine also, and bestow some curses upon it; _who are re...
Let them curse it that curse the day, the sorcerers of old, whose ban was thought to bewitch a day so as to make it a day of misfortune, WHO ARE READY TO RAISE UP THEIR MOURNING, literally, "those who...
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...
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...
THEIR MOURNING: Or, Leviathan...
"LET THOSE CURSE IT WHO CURSE THE DAY, WHO ARE PREPARED TO ROUSE LEVIATHAN": This may refer to professional cursers such as Balaam (Numbers 22-24). The term "Leviathan" comes from the Hebrew _liwayh_....
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....
THAT CURSE THE DAY, i.e. their day, to wit, their birthday; for the pronoun is here omitted for the metre's sake; for this and the following Chapter s are written in verse, as all grant. So the sense...
Job 3:8 curse H5344 (H8799) curse H779 (H8802) day H3117 ready H6264 arouse H5782 (H8788) Leviathan...
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 3:3 In skillfully crafted poetry, Job says he wishes that he had never been born. ⇐ ⇔...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 3:8 Elements of ancient myth are sometimes used metaphorically in Scripture, often in images of God’s power or authority (see Job 26:12). LEVIATHAN. An ancient symbol of chao
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...
2 Chronicles 35:25; Amos 5:16; Jeremiah 9:17; Jeremiah 9:18; Job 41:1
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...
The day — Their birth — day: when their afflictions move them to curse their own birth — day, let them remember mine also, and bestow some curses upon it. Mourning — Who are full of sorrow, and always...