Job 3:17
What meaning of the job 3:17 in the Bible?
What does Job 3:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearyd be at rest."
What does Job 3:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearyd be at rest."
Verse Job 3:17. _THERE THE WICKED CEASE_] In the grave the oppressors of men cease from irritating, harassing, and distressing their fellow creatures and dependents. _AND THERE THE WEARY BE AT REST._...
THERE THE WICKED CEASE - from “troubling.” In the grave - where kings and princes and infants lie. This verse is often applied to heaven, and the language is such as will express the condition of that...
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...
WICKED. lawless agitators. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. WEARY. worn out [of strength]....
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...
THE WEARY BE AT REST— The Hebrew here כח יגיעי _yegiiai koach_ signifies, _The toils of power;_ and these toils of the great are put in opposition to those of the slave, the meanest condition. The ver...
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...
_THERE THE WICKED CEASE FROM TROUBLING; AND THERE THE WEARY BE AT REST._ The wicked - originally meaning those ever restless, full desires (Isaiah 57:20). WEARY - literally, those whose strength is...
3:17 wearied (e-10) i.e. lit. 'whose strength is worn out.'...
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...
THERE — i.e., in the grave, the place indicated, but not distinctly expressed....
שָׁ֣ם רְ֭שָׁעִים חָ֣דְלוּ רֹ֑גֶז וְ שָׁ֥ם יָ֝נ֗וּחוּ יְגִ֣יעֵי כֹֽחַ׃...
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...
There the wicked (l) cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest. (l) That is, by death the cruelty of the tyrants has ceased....
_Tumult. In the grave they can no longer disturb the world. (Menochius) --- In strength. Septuagint, "in body." Both heroes and labourers then find rest, (Calmet) if they have lived virtuously. (Haydo...
(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...
_THE BETTER WORLD_ ‘There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.’ Job 3:17 This text speaks to us over nearly four thousand years. Job lived in days when the light of trut...
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...
THERE THE WICKED CEASE [FROM] TROUBLING,.... At death, and in the grave; such who have been like the troubled sea, that cannot rest, have always been either devising or doing mischief while living, in...
There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest. Ver. 17. _There the wicked cease from troubling_] Here they are restless, as being acted and agitated by the devil, who being...
_There the wicked cease from troubling_ In the grave the great oppressors and troublers of the world cease from their vexatious rapines and murders; _and there the weary be at rest_ Those who were her...
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...
WEARY BE AT REST: _ Heb._ wearied in strength...
"THERE THE WICKED CEASE FROM RAGING": At death the wicked cease their trouble making and turmoil. Job is not saying that at death the wicked are at rest (Luke 16:19ff), but rather death ends their lif...
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...
THERE, i.e. in the grave, which though not expressed, yet is clearly implied in the foregoing verses. THE WICKED CEASE FROM TROUBLING; the great oppressors and troublers of the world cease from all th...
Job 3:17 wicked H7563 cease H2308 (H8804) troubling H7267 weary H3019 H3581 rest H5117 (H8799) the wicked - Job 14:13; Psalms 55:5-8; Matthew 10:28; Luke 12:4; 2 Thessaloni
Job 3:17 This text speaks to us over nearly four thousand years. Job lived in days when the light of truth was dim; the Sun of righteousness had not yet risen above the horizon; Jesus had not yet bro...
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...
2 Peter 2:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:6; 2 Thessalonians 1:7; Hebrews 4:11; Hebrews 4:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 57:2; Job 14:13; Luke 12:4; Matthew 10:28
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...
There — In the grave. The wicked — The great oppressors and troublers of the world cease from their vexations, rapins and murders. Weary — Those who were here molested and tired out with their tyranni...