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Verse Job 3:26. _I WAS NOT IN SAFETY_] If this verse be read
_interrogatively_, it will give a good and easy sense: _Was I not_ _in
safety? Had I not rest? Was I not in comfort? Yet trouble came_. It...
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I WAS NOT IN SAFETY - That is, I have, or I had no peace. שׁלה
_shâlâh_ Septuagint, οὔτε εἰρήνευσα _oute_
_eirēneusa_ - “I had no peace.” The sense is, that his mind had
been disturbed with fea...
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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 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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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...
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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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_I WAS NOT IN SAFETY, NEITHER HAD I REST, NEITHER WAS I QUIET; YET
TROUBLE CAME._
I was not in safety ... yet trouble came - referring, not to his
former state but to the beginning of his troubles. F...
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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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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...
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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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לֹ֤א שָׁלַ֨וְתִּי ׀ וְ לֹ֖א
שָׁקַ֥טְתִּי וְֽ...
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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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I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; (q) yet
trouble came.
(q) The fear of troubles that would ensue, caused my prosperity to
seem to me as nothing, and yet I am not exempted...
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Dissembled my sufferings, making no complaint, not only during the
seven days that his friends had been with him, but long before. Hebrew
and Septuagint, "I was not in safety, nor at rest; neither was...
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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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REFLECTIONS
PONDER, my soul, over this view of Job; and behold in him, whose
patience is so highly testified of by the Holy Ghost, what man is in
his highest attainments. Oh! precious Jesus! lamb of G...
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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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I WAS NOT IN SAFETY,.... This cannot refer to the time of his
prosperity; for he certainly then was in safety, God having set an
hedge about him, so that none of his enemies, nor even Satan himself,
c...
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I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet
trouble came.
Ver. 26. _I was not in safety_] _i.e._ I counted not myself simply the
safer and happier man, because of creature comfo...
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_I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet_ Three
expressions denoting the same thing, which was also signified in the
verse immediately preceding, namely, that even in his prospero...
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JOB LONGS FOR DEATH...
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I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quite, he was
so troubled then that he had neither respite nor repose; YET TROUBLE
CAME, it was coming upon him in an endless stream. Thus even b...
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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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"I AM NOT AT EASE, NOR AM. QUIET, AND. AM NOT AT REST, BUT TURMOIL
COMES": Job is definitely not at peace and neither is he content
(Philippians 4:10-13).
CLOSING COMMENTS
· Here Job voices not the...
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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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The three expressions note the same thing, which also was signified in
the next foregoing verse, to wit, that even in his prosperous days he
never was secure or at rest from the torment of fear and an...
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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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_Yet trouble came._
TROUBLE AND USEFULNESS
What a heathen would have called “the blind and infamous
dispensations of fortune,” Christians speak of as the unlikelihoods
and inequalities of the provide...
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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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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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Job 27:9; Psalms 143:11...
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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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Quiet — I did not misbehave myself in prosperity, abusing it by
presumption, and security, but I lived circumspectly, walking humbly
with God, and working out my salvation with fear and trembling.
The...