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Verse Job 3:18. _THE PRISONERS REST TOGETHER_] Those who were slaves,
feeling all the troubles, and scarcely tasting any of the pleasures of
life, are quiet in the grave together; and the voice of th...
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THERE THE PRISONERS REST TOGETHER - Herder translates this, “There
the prisoners rejoice in their freedom.” The Septuagint strangely
enough, “There they of old (ὁ αἰώνιοι _hoi_
_aiōnioi_) assemble...
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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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OPPRESSOR. taskmaster....
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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...
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_the prisoners rest together_ The "prisoners" are not those immured in
prison, but captives driven to forced labour.
_the oppressor_ The taskmaster, Exodus 3:7. The prisoners are there
all together,...
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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...
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_THERE THE PRISONERS REST TOGETHER; THEY HEAR NOT THE VOICE OF THE
OPPRESSOR._
There the prisoners rest - from their chains.
VOICE OF THE OPPRESSOR - driving them with threats to task work (cf.
an...
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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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OPPRESSOR] rather, 'taskmaster.'
20-26. Job asks why his wretched life should be prolonged....
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In this world, some people are important. And other people are not
important. But when they die, God will be the judge of everyone. And
God will be fair to everyone (Revelation 20:12).
Nobody can ent...
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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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THE OPPRESSOR. — As this is the word rendered _taskmaster_ in
Exodus, some have thought there may be an allusion to that history
here....
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יַ֭חַד אֲסִירִ֣ים שַׁאֲנָ֑נוּ לֹ֥א
שָׁ֝מְע֗וּ קֹ֣ול...
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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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[There] the (m) prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of
the oppressor.
(m) All they who sustain any kind of calamity and misery in this
world: which he speaks after the judgment of the fl...
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_Bound in chains, like incorrigible slaves, (Calmet) or debtors.
(Cocceius.) --- These were formerly treated with great severity, Luke
xii. 59. (Calmet)_...
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(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...
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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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[THERE] THE PRISONERS REST TOGETHER,.... "Are at ease", as Mr.
Broughton renders the words; such who while they lived were in prison
for debt, or were condemned to the galleys, to lead a miserable lif...
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Job 3:18 [There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice
of the oppressor.
Ver. 18. _There the prisoners rest together_] Or alike, as do their
cruel creditors and hard taskmasters. There...
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_There the prisoners rest together_ That is, one as well as another;
they who were lately deprived of their liberty, kept in the strongest
chains and closest prisons, and condemned to the most hard an...
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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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"THE PRISONERS ARE AT EASE TOGETHER; THEY DO NOT HEAR THE VOICE OF THE
TASKMASTER": Prisoners are also at ease here, no longer hearing their
taskmasters shouting at them to work harder....
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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...
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THE PRISONERS REST TOGETHER, i.e. one as well as another; they who
were kept in the strongest chains and closest prisons, and condemned
to the most hard and miserable slavery, rest as well as those wh...
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Job 3:18 prisoners H615 rest H7599 (H8768) together H3162 hear H8085
(H8804) voice H6963 oppressor H5065 ...
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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 3:13 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...
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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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Exodus 5:15; Exodus 5:6; Isaiah 14:3; Isaiah 14:4; Job 39:7;...
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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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The oppressor — Or, taskmaster, who urges and forces them to work by
cruel threatenings and stripes. Job meddles not here with their
eternal state after death, of which he speaks hereafter, but only
t...