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Verse Job 3:7. _LO, LET THAT NIGHT BE SOLITARY_] The word הנה
_hinneh,_ _behold_, or _lo_, is wanting in one of _De Rossi's_ MSS.,
nor is it expressed in the _Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac_, or _Arabic_...
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LO, LET THAT NIGHT BE SOLITARY - Dr. Good, “O! that night! Let it be
a barren rock!” Noyes, “O let that night be unfruitful!” Herder,
“Let that night be set apart by itself.” The Hebrew word used here...
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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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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...
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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...
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_be solitary_ Rather perhaps, _barren_, as Isaiah 49:21. Let it not
experience a parent's joy, and le nought that lives date its birth
from it.
_no joyful voice_ of birthday rejoicing....
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LET THAT NIGHT BE SOLITARY— _Be full of grief._ Houbigant; which is
the proper contrast to the following clause; for we here observe, once
for all, that the poetry of Job is of the same kind with that...
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_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. ...
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_LO, LET THAT NIGHT BE SOLITARY, LET NO JOYFUL VOICE COME THEREIN._
Solitary - rather, unfruitful. 'Would that it had not given birth to
me' (Maurer and Umbreit)....
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SOLITARY] RV 'barren.' NO JOYFUL VOICE] as on the occasion of a birth....
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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, 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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If that night never existed, no baby’s life could begin then. And
Job would not be born. Job’s parents would not be glad about his
birth. But Job thought that their happiness was stupid. He thought
th...
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הִנֵּ֤ה הַ לַּ֣יְלָה הַ֭ הוּא יְהִ֣י
גַלְמ֑וּ
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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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_Praise, by the appearance of the stars, chap. xxxviii. 7. (Calmet)_...
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(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....
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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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LO, LET THAT NIGHT BE SOLITARY,.... Let there be no company for
journeys, or doing any business; no meetings of friends, neighbours,
or relations on it, for refreshment, pleasure, and recreation, afte...
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Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Ver. 7. _Lo, let that night be solitary_] And so consequently
sorrowful; for aloneness is comfortless, _et optimum solatium
sodalitiu...
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_Let that night be solitary_ Destitute of all society of men, meeting
and feasting together. Let it afford no entertainment or pleasure of
any kind; _let no joyful voice come therein_ No music, no har...
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Lo, let that night be solitary, or, more forceful, "See, that night!"
Let it be barren, and therefore utterly desolate, without a cheering
voice; LET NO JOYFUL VOICE COME THEREIN, not a single jubilan...
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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...
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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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"BEHOLD, LET THAT NIGHT BE BARREN": Literally, "stony", because stony
ground is unproductive, meaning that his mother would have been barren
and thus unable to conceive him. "LET NO JOY SHOUT ENTER IT...
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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....
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SOLITARY, i.e. destitute of all society of men meeting and feasting
together, which commonly was done at night, suppers being the most
solemn meals among divers ancient nations. See Mark 6:21 Luke 14:...
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Job 3:7 night H3915 barren H1565 shout H7445 come H935 (H8799)
solitary - Isaiah 13:20-22,...
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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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_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 3:3 In skillfully crafted poetry, Job says he wishes
that he had never been born.
⇐ ⇔...
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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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Isaiah 13:20; Isaiah 24:8; Jeremiah 7:34; Revelation 18:22;...
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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...