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OR AS AN HIDDEN UNTIMELY BIRTH - As an abortion which is hid, or
concealed; that is, which is soon removed from the sight. So the
Psalmist, Psalms 58:8 :
As a snail which melteth, let thom dissolve;...
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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 died from my birth
If he must be born, Job asks, Why he did not die from the womb? his
eye turning to the next possibility and chance of escaping sorrow. Had
he died he would have bee...
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With strong revulsion from the anguish of life Job desires even if
possible a deeper death than to have died when born, even the death of
having been dead born, scarcely to be distinguished from non-e...
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2. Asks why he was born (Job 3:11-19)
TEXT 3:11-19
11 WHY DIED I NOT FROM THE WOMB?
Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
12 Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, th...
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_OR AS AN HIDDEN UNTIMELY BIRTH I HAD NOT BEEN; AS INFANTS WHICH NEVER
SAW LIGHT._
Untimely birth (Psalms 58:8) - preferable to the life of the restless
miser (Ecclesiastes 6:3)....
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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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UNTIMELY BIRTH. — Another condition which would have relieved him
from the experience of suffering....
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אֹ֚ו כְ נֵ֣פֶל טָ֭מוּן לֹ֣א אֶהְיֶ֑ה
כְּ֝
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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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_Light; dying in the womb. He expresses a desire that he had been thus
prevented from feeling his present miseries and danger of sin.
(Haydock)_...
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(8) Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up
their mourning. (9) Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let
it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawn...
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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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OR AS AN HIDDEN UNTIMELY BIRTH,.... Or "hid, as one born out of time",
as Mr. Broughton reads it; the Septuagint use the same word as the
apostle does, when he says the like of himself, 1 Corinthians...
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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which]
never saw light.
Ver. 16. _Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been_] As an
abortive or miscarrying embryo that falleth from the...
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_Or with princes that had gold_, &c. My repose and security from
worldly anxieties would have been the same with that of those princes
who were once celebrated for their wealth, and whose birth entitl...
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or as an hidden, untimely birth I had not been, he would not exist at
all, AS INFANTS WHICH NEVER SAW LIGHT. All of them, the builders of
great palaces, the rich millionaires, together with the still-...
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JOB LONGS FOR DEATH...
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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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"OR LIKE. MISCARRIAGE WHICH IS DISCARDED,. WOULD NOT BE, AS INFANTS
THAT NEVER SAW LIGHT": Here he wishes that he had been miscarried and
thus discarded, literally hidden or buried from. life of suffe...
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11-19 Job complained of those present at his birth, for their tender
attention to him. No creature comes into the world so helpless as man.
God's power and providence upheld our frail lives, and his...
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HIDDEN; undiscerned and unregarded. UNTIMELY BIRTH; born before the
due time, and therefore extinct. I HAD NOT BEEN, to wit, in the land
of the living, of which he here speaketh. AS INFANTS WHICH NEVE...
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Job 3:16 hidden H2934 (H8803) child H5309 infants H5768 saw H7200
(H8804) light H216
an hidden -...
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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 3:13 Job describes death as rest from the toil of
life. He pictures its effect on people both high and low in society.
He wishes he had joined those who were already in this state of r...
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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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1 Corinthians 15:8; Psalms 58:8...
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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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Hidden — Undiscerned and unregarded. Born before the due time. Been
— In the land of the living....