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Verse Job 3:6. _AS FOR THAT NIGHT, LET DARKNESS SEIZE UPON IT_] I
think the _Targum_ has hit the sense of this whole verse: "Let
darkness seize upon that night; let it not be reckoned among the
annual...
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As for “that night.” Job, having cursed the day, proceeds to utter
a malediction on the “night” also; see Job 3:3. This malediction
extends to Job 3:9.
LET DARKNESS SEIZE UPON IT - Hebrew, Let it take...
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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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DARKNESS. intense or thick darkness. Hebrew. _'ophel._ Not _hashak_
(verses: Job 3:4; Job 3:5; Job 3:9) which is less intense....
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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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_let it not be joined unto_ Rather, LET IT NOT REJOICE AMONG. Let it
not enter the joyful troop of days, glad in its existence and its
beauty. Another way of spelling the word gives the meaning, let i...
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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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_AS FOR THAT NIGHT, LET DARKNESS SEIZE UPON IT; LET IT NOT BE JOINED
UNTO THE DAYS OF THE YEAR, LET IT NOT COME INTO THE NUMBER OF THE
MONTHS._
Seize upon it - as its prey; i:e., utterly dissolve it....
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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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LET IT NOT BE JOINED, etc.] let it be blotted out of the calendar. The
ancients believed in lucky and unlucky days. Let this day ruin no more
lives, it has ruined enough....
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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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So Job then thought about the night when his parents came together. On
that night, Job’s life began, so Job regretted that night also. Of
course, every night belongs in the calendar. But Job did not w...
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הַ לַּ֥יְלָה הַ הוּא֮ יִקָּחֵ֪ה֫וּ
אֹ֥פֶל אַל
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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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(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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AS [FOR] THAT NIGHT,.... The night of conception; Job imprecated evils
on the day he was born, now on the night he was conceived in, the
returns of it:
LET DARKNESS SEIZE UPON IT; let it not only he...
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As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined
unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the
months.
Ver. 6. _As for that night, let darkness seize upon it_...
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_As for that night, let darkness seize upon it_ Constant and
extraordinary darkness, without the least glimmering of light from the
moon or stars; darkness to the highest degree possible. Thus, as Job...
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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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As for that night, let darkness seize upon it, everlasting darkness
holding it in its possession; LET IT NOT BE JOINED UNTO THE DAYS OF
THE YEAR, rather, "let it not be glad of its existence among the...
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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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LET IT NOT BE JOINED UNTO THE DAYS:
Or, let it not rejoice among the days...
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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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LET DARKNESS SEIZE UPON IT, i. e. constant and extraordinary darkness,
without the least glimmering of light from the moon or stars. JOINED
UNTO THE DAYS OF THE YEAR, i.e. reckoned as one, or a part o...
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Job 3:6 night H3915 darkness H652 seize H3947 (H8799) rejoice H2302
(H8799) days H3117 year H8141 come...
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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 3:1 Dialogue: Job, His Suffering, and His Standing
before God. Between the brief narrative sections of the prologue (Job
1:1) and epilogue ...
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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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Exodus 2:2; Genesis 49:6; Isaiah 14:20; Job 29:2; Job 39:2;...
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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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Darkness — Constant and extraordinary darkness, without the least
glimmering of light from the moon or stars. Be joined — Reckoned as
one, or a part of one of them....