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Job 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, the light of life continued to a man as helpless and forsaken as Job, and whom God hath hedged in, so that he is unable to find deliverance?
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, the light of life continued to a man as helpless and forsaken as Job, and whom God hath hedged in, so that he is unable to find deliverance?
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;...
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...
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
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
WHOSE WAY IS HID] in perplexity and doubt....
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 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...
HEDGED IN. — The same expression was used in an opposite sense in Job 1:10....
לְ֭ גֶבֶר אֲשֶׁר ־דַּרְכֹּ֣ו נִסְתָּ֑רָה וַ י
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...
[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....
_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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
_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. _...
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...
"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...
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...
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,...
Job 3:23 man H1397 way H1870 hidden H5641 (H8738) God H433 hedged H5526 (H8686) whose way -...
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...
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...
_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...
_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 3:20 The final sequence of “why” questions reflects Job’s current miserable state. ⇐ ⇔...
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
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...
Hosea 2:6; Isaiah 40:27; Job 12:14; Job 19:8; Lamentations 3:7;...
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...
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...