Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 3:9
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it (g) see the dawning of the day:
(g) Let it be always night, and never see day.
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it (g) see the dawning of the day:
(g) Let it be always night, and never see day.
Verse Job 3:9. _LET THE STARS OF THE TWILIGHT THEREOF_] The stars of the twilight may here refer to the planets _Venus, Jupiter, Mars_, and _Mercury_, as well as to the brighter fixed stars. _LET IT...
LET THE STARS OF THE TWILIGHT THEREOF BE DARK - That is, be extinguished, so that it shall be total darkness - darkness not even relieved by a single star. The word here rendered “twilight” נשׁף _nesh...
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...
DARK. Hebrew. _hashak._ See Job 3:4. LET IT LOOK. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6....
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...
_the twilight thereof_ that is, the morning twilight of that night. Let its morning stars, that should herald its day, go out as the next clause explains: let it look for the light of a day that never...
_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 THE STARS OF THE TWILIGHT THEREOF BE DARK; LET IT LOOK FOR LIGHT, BUT HAVE NONE; NEITHER LET IT SEE THE DAWNING OF THE DAY:_ Dawning of the day - literally, eyelashes of morning; х_ Bª`AP`APEEY_...
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...
DAWNING OF THE DAY] lit. 'eyelids of the morning.' 11-19. Job asks why he did not die at birth; a very fine passage expressive of great bitterness of soul....
People are glad to see light in the early morning. Then, they know that daylight is beginning. Then, their troubles in the night will not continue. Perhaps they were afraid during the night. But they...
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...
THE DAWNING... — Literally, _the eyelids of the dawn. _...
יֶחְשְׁכוּ֮ כֹּוכְבֵ֪י נִ֫שְׁפֹּ֥ו יְקַו ־לְ אֹ֥ור...
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...
(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 THE STARS OF THE TWILIGHT THEREOF BE DARK,.... Either of the morning or evening twilight; both may be meant, rather the latter, because of the following clause; the sense is, let not these appear...
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: Ver. 9. _Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark_] If the stars...
_Let the stars of the twilight thereof_, &c. That adorn the heavens with so much beauty and lustre, never be seen that night. _Let it look for light, but have none_ Let it wait with the greatest impat...
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark, refusing to be the heralds of the dawn and thereby continuing the darkness; LET IT LOOK FOR LIGHT, BUT HAVE NONE, condemned to the everlasting curse of d...
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...
THE DAWNING OF THE DAY: _ Heb._ the eyelids of the morning...
"LET THE STARS OF ITS TWILIGHT BE DARKENED; LET IT WAIT FOR LIGHT BUT HAVE NONE, AND LET IT NOT SEE THE BREAKING DAWN": "The morning stars are actually the planets Venus and Mercury, easily seen at da...
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....
LET THE STARS, which are the glory and beauty of the night, to render it amiable and delightful to men, BE COVERED WITH THICK DARKNESS, nd that both in the evening twilight, as is here expressed, when...
Job 3:9 stars H3556 morning H5399 dark H2821 (H8799) look H6960 (H8762) light H216 see H7200 (H
DAWNING Hebrew, "the eyelids of the morning." (Job 41:18)....
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. ⇐ ⇔...
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...
Jeremiah 13:16; Jeremiah 8:15; Job 30:26; Job 41:18...
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 stars — Let the stars, which are the glory and beauty of the night, be covered with thick darkness, and that both in the evening twilight, when the stars begin to shine; and also in the farther pr...