Job wanted rest and quiet. He even wanted to be dead, so that he could sleep. But instead, he was always suffering. Nothing seemed to help him. And nothing comforted him.
Job’s friends were sad when they heard Job’s speech. They did not want Job to suffer. And they did not think that Job deserved to suffer. Eliphaz spoke first. He was sure that God would help Job. So, Eliphaz tried to encourage Job. Eliphaz wanted to give hope to Job.
Verse Job 3:24. _FOR MY SIGHING COMETH_] Some think that this refers to the _ulcerated state_ of Job's _body, mouth, hands_, c. He longed for food, but was not able to lift it to his mouth with his h...
FOR MY SIGHING COMETH BEFORE I EAT - Margin, “My meat.” Dr. Good renders this,” Behold! my sighing takes the place of my daily food, and refers to Psalms 42:3, as an illustration: My tears are my mea...
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...
I EAT. my food....
_before I eat_ lit. _before my meat_, as margin. The temporal meaning of _before_gives no sense here. In 1 Samuel 1:16 the same expression occurs, "Count not thine handmaid _for_a daughter of Belial....
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...
FOR MY SIGHING COMETH BEFORE I EAT— _My groaning cometh like my daily bread._ Heath. _In presence of my meat,_ or _at my meals,_ says Peters. _And my roarings are poured out like the waters; i.e._ whi...
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...
_FOR MY SIGHING COMETH BEFORE I EAT, AND MY ROARINGS ARE POURED OUT LIKE THE WATERS._ My sighing cometh before I eat - i:e., prevents my eating. Before I begin to eat, my sighs interrupt me, so that...
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...
Translate, 'For my sighings are instead of my eating, and my groans are poured out like drink': cp. Psalms 42:3. 25, 26. The verbs should all be in the present tense in these vv. Job's grief and sick...
כִּֽי ־לִ פְנֵ֣י לַ֭חְמִי אַנְחָתִ֣י תָבֹ֑א ו
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...
_Sigh, through difficulty of swallowing, (Pineda) or sense of misery. (Haydock)_...
(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...
FOR MY SIGHING COMETH BEFORE I EAT,.... Or, "before my bread", or "food" g; before he sat down to eat, or had tasted of his food, there were nothing but sighing and sobbing, so that he had no appetite...
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. Ver. 24. _For my sighing cometh before I eat_] It cometh unsent for, as evil weather useth to do, and most unseason...
_For my sighing cometh before I eat_ Hebrew, _before the face of my bread._ Instead of enjoying the satisfaction of being refreshed with the common necessaries that are afforded us, and taking any ple...
For my sighing cometh before I eat, instead of eating and enjoying his food he is constrained to groan in his misery, AND MY ROARINGS ARE POURED OUT LIKE THE WATERS, in a steady, unremittent flow, wit...
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...
BEFORE I EAT: _ Heb._ before my meat...
"FOR MY GROANING COMES AT THE SIGHT OF MY FOOD": "Thus means either that he groaned when he looked at food (because his illness removed his appetite and made food repulsive) or that his groaning was a...
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...
BEFORE I EAT, Heb. _before the face of my bread_, i.e. either when I am going to eat, or rather, all the time whilst I am eating, (for so this phrase is used PSALMS 72:5, _before the face of the sun_,...
Job 3:24 sighing H585 comes H935 (H8799) before H6440 eat H3899 groanings H7581 out H5413 (H8799) water...
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 3:20 The final sequence of “why” questions reflects Job’s current miserable state. ⇐ ⇔...
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...
Isaiah 59:11; Job 7:19; Lamentations 3:8; Psalms 102:9; Psalms 22:1;...
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...
Before, &c. — Heb. before the face of my bread, all the time I am eating, I fall into sighing and weeping, because I am obliged to eat, and to support this wretched life, and because of my uninterrupt...