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Verse Job 3:11. _WHY DIED I NOT FROM THE WOMB_] As the other
circumstance did not take place, why was I not _still-born_, without
the possibility of reviviscence? or, as this did not occur, why did I...
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WHY DIED I NOT FROM THE WOMB? - Why did I not die as soon as I was
born? Why were any pains taken to keep me alive? The suggestion of
this question leads Job in the following verses into the beautiful...
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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 silence is broken by Job. Alas! his lips do not ut...
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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... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.
FROM. in, or within.
GIVE UP THE GHOST. die. Hebrew. _gava',_ to expire. Compare Job 10:18;
Job 13:19; Job 14:10....
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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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WHY DIED I NOT FROM THE WOMB?— The LXX render it, _in the womb._ See
Jeremiah 20:17 and Noldius, p. 153. The _breasts that I should suck,_
in the next verse, would be rendered more properly, _the brea...
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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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_WHY DIED I NOT FROM THE WOMB? WHY DID I NOT GIVE UP THE GHOST WHEN I
CAME OUT OF THE BELLY?_
Died ... from the womb - why died I not as soon as I came forth from
the womb?...
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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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לָ֤מָּה לֹּ֣א מֵ רֶ֣חֶם אָמ֑וּת מִ
בֶּ֖טֶן יָצָ֣אתִי וְ אֶגְוָֽע׃...
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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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(h) Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost
when I came out of the belly?
(h) This, and that which follows declares, that when man gives place
to his passions, he is not abl...
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_In the. Hebrew, "from the womb," (Haydock) or as soon as I was born.
(Calmet) --- He seems to have lost sight of original sin, (ver. 1.) or
there might be some method of having it remitted to childre...
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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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WHY DIED I NOT FROM THE WOMB?.... That is, as soon as he came out of
it; or rather, as soon as he was in it, or from the time that he was
in it; or however, while he was in it, that so he might not ha...
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Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when
I came out of the belly?
Ver. 11. _Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the
ghost? &c._] Why was I not forthwith...
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_Why died I not from the womb?_ It would surely have been far better,
and much happier for me, had I either expired in the womb where I
received my life, or it had been taken from me the very moment m...
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Why died I not from the womb, immediately after birth? WHY DID I NOT
GIVE UP THE GHOST WHEN I CAME OUT OF THE BELLY?...
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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 DID. NOT DIE AT BIRTH, COME FORTH FROM THE WOMB AND EXPIRE?":
Notice the repetition of the word "why" in this section (Job 3:12).
Here is the common question echoed by so many since Job, "Why God...
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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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FROM THE WOMB, i.e. as soon as ever I was born, or come out of the
womb. And the same thing is expressed in other words, which is an
elegancy usual both in the Hebrew and in other languages....
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Job 3:11 die H4191 (H8799) birth H7358 perish H1478 (H8799) came H3318
(H8804) womb H990
died I - Psalms 58:8; Jeremiah 15:10; Hosea 9:14
when I came - Psalms 22:9-10, Psalms 71:
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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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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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Hosea 9:14; Isaiah 46:3; Jeremiah 15:10; Psalms 139:13; Psalms 22:10;
Psalms 22:9; Psalms 58:8; Psalms 71:6...
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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...