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Verse Job 3:20. _WHEREFORE IS LIGHT GIVEN_] Why is life granted to him
who is incapable of enjoying it, or of performing its functions?...
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WHEREFORE IS LIGHT GIVEN TO HIM THAT IS IN MISERY? - The word
“light” here is used undoubtedly to denote “life.” This verse
commences a new part of Job’s complaint. It is that God keeps people
alive w...
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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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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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WHEREFORE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
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_Wherefore is light given_ This is a possible translation, but more
probably we should render, WHEREFORE GIVES HE LIGHT? the Author of
light and life being alluded to obliquely and not named. _The
bit...
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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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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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_WHEREFORE IS LIGHT GIVEN TO HIM THAT IS IN MISERY, AND LIFE UNTO THE
BITTER IN SOUL;_
Wherefore (seeing that the dead are free from every earthly sorrow)
is light given - literally, 'giveth He light...
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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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Job was able to sympathise with other people because of his own
troubles. Job always cared about other people (Job 29:12-17). But now
Job knew how they suffered....
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WHEREFORE IS LIGHT GIVEN. — Comp. the connection between life and
light in Psalms 36:9 and John 1:4....
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לָ֤מָּה יִתֵּ֣ן לְ עָמֵ֣ל אֹ֑ור וְ֝
חַיִּ֗ים
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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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(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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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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WHEREFORE IS LIGHT GIVEN TO HIM THAT IS IN MISERY,.... That labours
under various calamities and afflictions, as Job did, being stripped
of his substance, deprived of his children, and now in great pa...
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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the
bitter [in] soul;
Ver. 20. _Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery_] Job
hath not done yet, though he had said more tha...
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_Wherefore is light given_ למה יתן, _lama jitten;_ why doth he
give, or hath he given, _light_, namely, the light of life, to him
that is in misery, whose life is a scene of sorrow and distress,
loade...
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Wherefore is light, namely, the light of life, GIVEN TO HIM THAT IS IN
MISERY AND LIFE UNTO THE BITTER IN SOUL, why should God continue them
in this miserable life,...
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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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"WHY IS LIGHT GIVEN TO HIM WHO SUFFERS, AND LIFE TO THE BITTER OF
SOUL": For the fourth time in this speech, Job asked "why?". At this
moment it did not make any sense to him that God would give life...
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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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Heb. _Wherefore_ (for what cause, or use, or good) _doth he_ (i.e.
God, though he forbear to name him, out of that holy fear and
reverence which still he retained towards him) give light? either the
l...
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Job 3:20 light H216 given H5414 (H8799) misery H6001 life H2416 bitter
H4751 soul H5315
Wherefore -...
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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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_Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery._
CHRISTIAN POSTURE OF THE PROBLEM OF EVIL IN LIFE
This question of universal, intellectual, and moral interest, as to
the purpose of evil, is a que...
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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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1 Samuel 1:10; 2 Kings 4:27; Jeremiah 20:18; Job 3:16; Job 33:28;...
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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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Light — The light of life. Bitter — Unto those to whom life itself
is bitter and burdensome. Life is called light, because it is pleasant
and serviceable for walking and working; and this light is sai...