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Verse Job 3:19. _THE SMALL AND GREAT ARE THERE._] All sorts and
conditions of men are equally blended in the grave, and ultimately
reduced to one common dust; and between the bond and free there is no...
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THE SMALL AND THE GREAT ARE THERE - The old and the young, the high
and the low. Death levels all. It shows no respect to age; it spares
none because they are vigorous, young, or beautiful. This senti...
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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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MASTER. masters. Hebrew, plural for emphasis....
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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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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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_THE SMALL AND GREAT ARE THERE; AND THE SERVANT IS FREE FROM HIS
MASTER._
The small and great are there - on the same footing, without
distinction of rank (Proverbs 22:2).
SERVANT. The slave is the...
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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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קָטֹ֣ן וְ֭ גָדֹול שָׁ֣ם ה֑וּא וְ֝
עֶ֗בֶד חָפְשִׁ֥י מֵ אֲדֹנָֽיו׃...
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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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(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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THE SMALL AND GREAT ARE THERE,.... Both as to age, and with respect to
bulk and strength of body, and also to estate and dignity; children
and men, or those of low and high stature, or in a mean or mo...
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The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his
master.
Ver. 19. _The small and the great are there_] In Calvary are skulls of
all sizes, say the Hebrews. _Stat sua cuique dies_ (Vi...
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_The small and great are there_ It should rather be rendered, _are
equal there;_ persons of all qualities and conditions, whether higher
or lower, are in the same circumstances. There is no distinctio...
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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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"THE SMALL AND THE GREAT ARE THERE, AND THE SLAVE IS FREE FROM HIS
MASTER": "Even prisoners and slaves are released here" _(Jackson p.
30)._ Dead slaves and prisoners presently have more peace than Jo...
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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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THE SMALL AND GREAT, i.e. persons of all qualifies and conditions,
whether higher or lower. ARE THERE, in the same place and state, all
those kinds of distinctions and differences being for ever aboli...
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Job 3:19 small H6996 great H1419 servant H5650 free H2670 master H113
The small - Job 30:23; Psalms 49:2, Psalms 49:6-10; Ecclesiastes 8:8,
Ecclesiastes 12:5, Ecclesiastes 12:7;...
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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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Ecclesiastes 12:5; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Hebrews 9:27;
Job 30:23; Luke 16:22; Luke 16:23; Psalms 49:14; Psalms 49:2;...
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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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Small and great — Persons of all qualities and conditions. Are there
— In the same place and state, all those distinctions being forever
abolished. A good reason, why those who have power should use i...