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Job 3:3-10

JOB—NOTE ON Job 3:3 In skillfully crafted poetry, Job says he wishes that he had never been born.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 3:3. _THERE IS A MAN-CHILD CONCEIVED._] The word הרה _harah_ signifies to _conceive_; yet here, it seems, it should be taken in the sense of _being born_, as it is perfectly unlikely that th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LET THE DAY PERISH - “Perish the day! O that there had never been such a day! Let it be blotted from the memory of man! There is something singularly bold, sublime, and “wild” in this exclamation. It...

  • 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

    AND. or. He knew not which it was. Compare Judges 11:31. MAN. Hebrew. _geber._ App-14....

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _night in which it was said_ Rather, THE NIGHT WHICH SAID. The night is personified and cursed as a conscious agent, responsible for Job's existence, comp. Job 3:10. _There is a man child conceived_ R...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THE NIGHT IN WHICH IT WAS SAID, &C.— _And the night which said, See, a man-child is born;_ Heath: who observes from Schultens, that the bearing of a son was a matter of great consequence among the...

  • 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

    _LET THE DAY PERISH WHEREIN I WAS BORN, AND THE NIGHT IN WHICH IT WAS SAID, THERE IS A MAN CHILD CONCEIVED._ The night in which - rather, 'the night which said.' The words in italics are not in the H...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    3:3 man (a-18) _ 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Observe the piled-up malediction. The power and pathos of the chapter are remarkable....

  • 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 wished that he had never lived. He used many words to explain this thought. He imagined that the skies were dark on the day of his birth. Such a day would be a terrible day. But the day would stil...

  • 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

    יֹ֣אבַד יֹ֖ום אִוָּ֣לֶד בֹּ֑ו וְ הַ לַּ֥יְלָה

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Let the day (c) perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived. (c) Men should not be weary of their life and curse it, because of the infinities that...

  • 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

    LET THE DAY PERISH WHEREIN I WAS BORN,.... Here begins Job's form of cursing his day, and which explains what is meant by it; and it may be understood either of the identical day of his birth, and the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived. Ver. 3. _Let the day perish wherein I was born_] He curseth his birthday, which the Greeks...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Here the metrical part of this book begins, which in the original Hebrew is broken into short verses, and is very beautiful, thus: שׂאבד יום אולד בו _Jobad jom ivaled bo,_ והלילה אמר הרה גבר _Vehalail...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man-child conceived, rather, "the night which said," for that night is personified as the witness and messenger of...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Let the remembrance of that day be utterly lost; yea, I heartily wish that it had never been. Such wishes are apparently foolish and impatient, and yet have been sometimes forced from wise and good me...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 3:3 day H3117 perish H6 (H8799) born H3205 (H8735) night H3915 said H559 (H8804) child H1397

  • 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 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

    Jeremiah 15:10; Jeremiah 20:14; Jeremiah 20:15; Job 10:18; Job 10:19

  • 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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Let the day — Let the remembrance of that day be utterly lost....

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