Job 3:13
What meaning of the job 3:13 in the Bible?
What does Job 3:13 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,"
What does Job 3:13 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,"
Verse Job 3:13. _FOR NOW SHOULD I HAVE LAIN STILL_] In that case I had been insensible; _quiet _- without these overwhelming agitations; _slept _- unconscious of evil; _been at rest _- been out of the...
FOR NOW SHOULD I HAVE LAIN STILL - In this verse Job uses four expressions to describe the state in which be would have been if he had been so happy as to have died when an infant. It is evidently a v...
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 silence is broken by Job. Alas! his lips do not ut...
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...
Would God I had died from my birth If he must be born, Job asks, Why he did not die from the womb? his eye turning to the next possibility and chance of escaping sorrow. Had he died he would have bee...
2. Asks why he was born (Job 3:11-19) TEXT 3:11-19 11 WHY DIED I NOT FROM THE WOMB? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? 12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, th...
_FOR NOW SHOULD I HAVE LAIN STILL AND BEEN QUIET, I SHOULD HAVE SLEPT: THEN HAD I BEEN AT REST,_ Lain ... quiet ... slept - a gradation. I should not only have lain, but been quiet and not only been...
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...
כִּֽי ־עַ֭תָּה שָׁכַ֣בְתִּי וְ אֶשְׁקֹ֑וט יָ֝שַׁ֗נְתִּי אָ֤ז ׀ יָנ֬וּחַֽ לִֽי׃...
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...
For now should I have (i) lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, (i) The vehemency of his afflictions made him utter these words as though death was the end of all m...
CHAPTER III. _ Sleep. So death is often styled. Olli dura quies oculos et ferreus urget_ Somnus: in æternam clauduntur lumina noctem. (Virgil, \'c6neid x.)...
(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...
FOR NOW SHOULD I HAVE LAIN STILL, AND BEEN QUIET,.... Signifying, that if the above had been his case, if he had died as soon as born, or quickly after, then he would have been laid in the grave, wher...
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, Ver. 13. _For now should I have lain still and been quiet_] Why, but is it not better to be preserved in...
_For_ now _should I have lain still, and been quiet_ Free from those torments of body, and that anguish of mind, which now oppress me. _With kings and counsellors of the earth_ I had then been as happ...
JOB LONGS FOR DEATH...
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...
"FOR NOW. WOULD HAVE LAIN DOWN AND BEEN QUIET;. WOULD HAVE SLEPT THEN,. WOULD HAVE BEEN AT REST": Death in Scripture is at times compared to sleep (John 11:11;. Thess. Job 4:14). This imagery does not...
11-19 Job complained of those present at his birth, for their tender attention to him. No creature comes into the world so helpless as man. God's power and providence upheld our frail lives, and his...
QUIET; free from all those torments of my body and mind which now oppress me....
Job 3:13 still H7901 (H8804) quiet H8252 (H8799) asleep H3462 (H8804) rest H5117 (H8799) then had I been at rest - Ecclesiastes 6:3-5, Ecclesiastes 9:10...
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 3:13 Job describes death as rest from the toil of life. He pictures its effect on people both high and low in society. He wishes he had joined those who were already in this state of r...
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...
Ecclesiastes 6:3; Ecclesiastes 9:10...
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...