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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 3:5

Stain. — Literally, redeem — i.e., claim as their rightful inheritance. The other meaning enters into this word, as in Isaiah 63:3; Malachi 1:7.

Blackness of the day — i.e., preternatural darkness, inopportune and unexpected darkness, like that of eclipses, &c.

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See also Job 3:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 3:5. _LET DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH STAIN IT_] יגאלהו _yigaluhu_, "pollute or avenge it," from גאל _gaal_, to _vindicate,_ _avenge_, c. hence גאל _goel_, the nearest of kin, whose ri...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LET DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH - The Hebrew word צלמות _tsalmâveth_ is exceedingly musical and poetical. It is derived from צל _tsêl_, “a shadow,” and מות _mâveth_, “death;” and is used to de...

  • 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

    THE SHADOW OF DEATH. Hebrew. _zalmaveth_. the darkness of death. STAIN IT. pollute it. Hebrew. _ga'al,_ to pollute; not _ga'al,_ to redeem....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _shadow of death stain it_ Rather, CLAIM IT, lit. _redeem it_. Let it become part of the possession of darkness. The word, however, does not mean _re_claim, as if the idea were that the day had been w...

  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LET DARKNESS—STAIN IT, &C.— _Let darkness—claim it; let thick night involve it._ Houbigant; who observes well, that there enters nothing of pollution into the idea of darkness....

  • 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 DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH STAIN IT; LET A CLOUD DWELL UPON IT; LET THE BLACKNESS OF THE DAY TERRIFY IT._ Let ... the shadow of death (deepest darkness, Isaiah 9:2) STAIN IT. This is a la...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    STAIN IT] RV 'claim it for their own.' BLACKNESS OF, etc.] RV 'all that maketh black the day'; e.g. eclipses and unusual darknesses....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יִגְאָלֻ֡הוּ חֹ֣שֶׁךְ וְ֭ צַלְמָוֶת תִּשְׁכָּן ־עָלָ֣יו...

  • 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 darkness and the (e) shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. (e) That is, most obscure darkness, which makes them afraid of death that they a...

  • 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 DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH STAIN IT,.... Let there be such darkness on it as on persons when dying, or in the state of the dead; hence the sorest afflictions, and the state of man in unregen...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. Ver. 5. _Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it_] Let it be _dies luctuosus e...

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

    _Let darkness and the shadow of death_ Let the most dismal darkness, like that of the place of the dead, which is a _land of darkness_, and where the _light_ is _darkness, Job 10:21_; or darkness so g...

  • 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 darkness and the shadow of death stain it, the thickest darkness, the deepest death-gloom reclaiming and covering it as an unclean thing; LET A CLOUD DWELL UPON IT, encamping over it, obscuring an...

  • 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)

    STAIN IT: Or, challenge it LET THE BLACKNESS OF THE DAY TERRIFY IT: Or, let them terrify it, as those who have a bitter day...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "LET DARKNESS AND BLACK GLOOM CLAIM IT; LET. CLOUD SETTLE ON IT; LET THE BLACKNESS OF THE DAY TERRIFY IT. AS FOR THAT NIGHT, LET DARKNESS SEIZE IT; LET IT NOT REJOICE AMONG THE DAYS OF THE YEAR; LET...

  • 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

    DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH, i.e. a black and dark shadow, like that of the place of the dead, which is a land of darkness, and where the _light is darkness_, as Job explains this very phrase, JO...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 3:5 darkness H2822 death H6757 claim H1350 (H8799) cloud H6053 settle H7931 (H8799) blackness H3650 day...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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

  • 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

    Amos 5:8; Amos 8:10; Deuteronomy 4:11; Ezekiel 30:3; Ezekiel 34:12;...

  • 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

    Death — A black and dark shadow like that of the place of the dead, which is a land of darkness. Slain — Take away its beauty and glory. Terrify — That is, men in it. Let it be always observed as a fr...

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