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Verse Job 3:23. _TO A MAN WHOSE WAY IS HID_] Who knows not what is
before him in either world, but is full of fears and trembling
concerning both.
_GOD HATH HEDGED IN?_] Leaving him no way to escape;...
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Why is light given “to a man uhose way is hid?” That is, who does
not know what way to take, and who sees no escape from the misery that
surrounds him.
WHOM GOD HATH HEDGED IN - See Notes, Job 1:10. T...
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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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Why does God continue life to the wretch who longs for death? Job's
words again rise to a passionate intensity. The vision of the
peacefulness of death vanishes, and he reawakens to the consciousness...
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WHY... ? Figure of speech _Ellipsis._ App-6. supplies the sentence
from v- 20; but it may be repeated from Job 3:22, "the grave",
regarding verses: Job 21:22 as. parenthesis.
GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4...
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_whose way is hid_ Job now narrows his view from the general sorrows
of mankind to himself. His way is hid or lost, the clear path of his
former life has suddenly broken off, or as the second clause o...
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Why does God continue life to the wretched, who long for death?
The vision of the peacefulness of death passes away, and Job awakens
again to the consciousness of his real condition, and his words, w...
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WHY IS LIGHT GIVEN TO A MAN, &C.— There is nothing for _why is light
given,_ in the original. Houbigant supposes it repeated from the 20th
verse; and he renders the present, _Why, to that man, whose w...
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3. And why he should go on living (Job 3:20-26)
TEXT 3:20-26
20 WHEREFORE IS LIGHT GIVEN TO HIM THAT IS IN MISERY,
And life unto the bitter in soul;
21 Who long for death, but it cometh not,
And...
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_WHY IS LIGHT GIVEN TO A MAN WHOSE WAY IS HID, AND WHOM GOD HATH
HEDGED IN?_
Whose way is hid. The picture of Job is drawn from a wanderer who has
lost his way, and who is hedged in, so as to have no...
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3:23 man (a-3) _ Geber_ . so ch. 4.17; 14.10 (first), 14; 16.21
(first); 22.2 (first); 33.17 (second), 29; 34.7,9,34; 38.3; 40.7. It
refers to strength, a cognate form ( _ Gibbor_ ) being used for
'm...
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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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WHOSE WAY IS HID] in perplexity and doubt....
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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 devil complained that God was protecting Job. The devil said that
God was like a hedge round Job (Job 1:10).
Job was also aware of this. But Job did not realise that God was
protecting him. Job w...
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HEDGED IN. — The same expression was used in an opposite sense in
Job 1:10....
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לְ֭ גֶבֶר אֲשֶׁר ־דַּרְכֹּ֣ו
נִסְתָּ֑רָה וַ י
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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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[Why is light given] to a man whose way is (o) hid, and whom God hath
hedged in?
(o) That sees not how to come out of his miseries, because he does not
depend on God's providence....
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_To. Why is life given to? &c. The uncertainty whether a man be worthy
of love or hatred, (Ecclesiastes ix. 1.) and whether he will persevere
to the end, is what fills Job with distress; though we mus...
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(20) В¶ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life
unto the bitter in soul; (21) Which long for death, but it cometh not;
and dig for it more than for hid treasures; (22) Which rejoic...
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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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WHY IS LIGHT GIVEN TO A MAN WHOSE WAY IS HID,.... Some of the Jewish
writers connect this with Job 3:22, thus; "who rejoice [and] are glad
when they find a grave for a man", c. but it should be observ...
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Job 3:23 [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God
hath hedged in?
Ver. 23. _Why is light given to a man whose way is hid?_] _i.e._ Why
is the light of life continued to him who is...
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_Why is light given to a man whose way is hid?_ Hid from him; who
knows not his way, that is, which way to turn himself, what course to
take to obtain comfort in his miseries, or to get out of them. _...
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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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"WHY IS LIGHT GIVEN TO. MAN WHOSE WAY IS HIDDEN, AND WHOM GOD HAS
HEDGED IN?"
Satan had complained that God had created. protective hedge around Job
and now Job complains that he has been hedged in by...
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20-26 Job was like a man who had lost his way, and had no prospect of
escape, or hope of better times. But surely he was in an ill frame for
death when so unwilling to live. Let it be our constant ca...
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WHY IS LIGHT GIVEN? these words are conveniently supplied out of JOB
1:20, where they are, all the following words hitherto being joined in
construction and sense with them. WHOSE WAY IS HID, to wit,...
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Job 3:23 man H1397 way H1870 hidden H5641 (H8738) God H433 hedged
H5526 (H8686)
whose way -...
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Job 3:23
I. We have in the text a great certainty _light is given._The light
within the soul falls from other worlds, from unseen, unrealised
heights beyond the soul. "The spirit of man is the candle...
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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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_Why is light given to a man whose way is hid?_
THE LIGHT GIVEN-THE WAY HIDDEN
How immediately this question speaks to us! How it seems to describe
that mental and moral incongruity of which we are m...
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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 3:20 The final sequence of “why” questions
reflects Job’s current miserable state.
⇐ ⇔...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 3:23 Satan had argued that Job was upright only
because God had put a “hedge” of blessing around him (Job 1:10).
Here, Job says that his suffering makes him one whom God has hedged in
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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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Hosea 2:6; Isaiah 40:27; Job 12:14; Job 19:8; Lamentations 3:7;...
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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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Hid — From him; who knows not his way, which way to turn himself,
what course to take to comfort himself in his miseries. Hedged in —
Whom God hath put as it were in a prison, so that he can see no wa...