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See also Job 3:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND JOB SPAKE - Margin, as in Hebrew, “answered.” The Hebrew word used here ענה _‛__ânâh_ “to answer,” is often employed when one commences a discourse, even though no question had preceded. It is s...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SPAKE. answered, i.e. began, or lamented. Hebrew idiom. See note on Deuteronomy 1:41....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Would God I had never been conceived or born This is the idea really expressed when Job curses his day and wishes it blotted out of existence. First he curses the day of his birth and the night of hi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _THE MEANING OF SILENCE_ Chapter s 314 I. NO EXIT: HELL IS OTHER PEOPLESartre SPEECHES FULL OF SOUND AND FURY Job 3:1, Job 14:22 A. WHY ME, LORD? (Job 3:1-26) 1. He curses his day. ...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND JOB SPAKE, AND SAID,_ SPAKE - Hebrew, answered - i:e., not to any actual question that preceded, but to the question virtually involved in the case. His outburst is singularly wild and bold (Jere...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job’s friends waited for Job to speak. They waited for an entire week. At last, Job spoke. Job explained that he was very sad. His life seemed to have no value. He felt as if he was waiting to die. J...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּ֥עַן אִיֹּ֗וב וַ יֹּאמַֽר׃...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) В¶ After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. (2) And Job spake, and said, (3) Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived....

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND JOB SPAKE, AND SAID. Or "answered and said" t, though not a word was spoken to him by his friends; he answered to his own calamity, and to their silence, as Schmidt observes; and this word is some...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Job spake, and said, Ver. 2. _And Job spake, and said_] Heb. Answered and said. Answered? Whom answered he? The Jewish doctors say, he answered his friends, who having hitherto said nothing to hi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Job spake and said, in a wild and bold outburst, which showed that he was impatient with the afflictions laid upon him by God, Cf Jeremiah 20:14,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB CURSES THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH. Up till now Job had suppressed all thoughts of rebellion against God, every notion of dissatisfaction and impatience with the ways of Jehovah. But now he gives evide...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SPAKE: _ Heb._ answered...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "JOB SAID, 'LET THE DAY PERISH ON WHICH. WAS TO BE BORN, AND THE NIGHT WHICH SAID, 'A BOY IS CONCEIVED'""If the day on which he was born had been wiped from the calendar, he could have avoided being...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 For seven days Job's friends sat by him in silence, without offering consolidation: at the same time Satan assaulted his mind to shake his confidence, and to fill him with hard thoughts of God....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 3:2 Job H347 spoke H6030 (H8799) said H559 (H8799) spake - Heb. answered, Judges 18:14...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 3:1 Dialogue: Job, His Suffering, and His Standing before God. Between the brief narrative sections of the prologue (Job 1:1) and epilogue ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Judges 18:14...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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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