E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 3:3
and = or. He knew not which it was. Compare Judges 11:31 . man. Hebrew. geber. App-14 . read more
約伯記 3:3 Cunpts
E.W. Bullinger
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 3:3
JOB'S EXPRESSION OF SUPERLATIVE GRIEF"Let the day perish wherein I was born,And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.Let that day be darkness;Let not God from above seek for it.Neither let the light shine upon it.Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own;Let a cloud dwell upon it;Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it:Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;Let it not come into the number of the... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 3:3
Job 3:3. And the night in which it was said, &c.— And the night which said, See, a man-child is born; Heath: who observes from Schultens, that the bearing of a son was a matter of great consequence among the Arabians; the form of their salutation to a newly-married woman being, frequently, "May you live happily, and bring forth male children." It is no wonder, therefore, that the night subsequent to the day which had conferred so great a piece of good fortune on a family should be... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 3:3
3. the night in which —rather "the night which said." The words in italics are not in the Hebrew. Night is personified and poetically made to speak. So in Job 3:7, and in Psalms 19:2. The birth of a male in the East is a matter of joy; often not so of a female. read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 3:1-6
II. THE DIALOGUE CONCERNING THE BASIS OF THE DIVINE-HUMAN RELATIONSHIP 3:1-42:6This major part of the book begins with a personal lament in which Job expressed his agony (ch. 3). Three cycles of speeches follow in which Job’s friends dialogued with him about his condition (chs. 4-27). Job then voiced his despair in two soliloquies (chs. 28-31). Next Job’s fourth friend, Elihu, offered his solution to Job’s problem (chs. 32-37). The section closes with God speaking to Job twice and Job’s... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 3:1-10
1. The wish that he had not been born 3:1-10Job evidently considered his conception as the beginning of his existence (Job 3:3; cf. Psalms 139:13-16). His poetic description of his birth set forth his regret that he had left his mother’s womb alive (cf. Jeremiah 20:14-18)."Leviathan [Job 3:8] was a seven-headed sea monster of ancient Near Eastern mythology. In the Ugaritic literature of Canaan and Phoenicia, eclipses were said to be caused by Leviathan’s swallowing the sun and moon. Job said,... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 3:1-26
A. Job’s Personal Lament ch. 3The poetic body to the book begins with a soliloquy in which Job cursed the day of his birth. This introductory soliloquy corresponds to another one Job gave at the end of his dialogue with his three friends (chs. 29-31), especially chapter 31 in which he uttered another curse against himself. These two soliloquies bracket the three cycles of speeches like the covers of a book and bind them together into a unified whole.Evidently the passing of time brought Job no... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 3:1-26
Job Curses his DayJob 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 from that presented in Job 2:10. Probably a considerable interval had elapsed before his friends arrived. He complains in the speeches which follow of the emaciated state into which he had fallen, and that from being the honoured of all he had become a byword to his neighbours: cp. Job 1:3; Job... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 3:1-26
Job 3:1-4 He had long been in the habit of 'lamenting' his birthday, though, in earlier days, Stella and other friends had celebrated the anniversary. Now it became a day of unmixed gloom, and the chapter in which Job curses the hour of his birth lay open all day on his table. Sir Leslie Stephen, Swift, p. 198. Job 3:6 Sept. 6, 1879. Red Sea. I am in a very angry mood. I feel sure that, doing my best, I cannot get with credit out of this business; I feel it is want of faith, but I have brought... read more
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Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 3:1-26
3:1-14:22 FIRST ROUND OF ARGUMENTJob’s bitterness (3:1-26)The long silence breaks when Job curses the day of his birth. He wishes he had never been born (3:1-7). He would like sorcerers also to curse that dark day. If they have power over the mythical sea monster Leviathan, they should have power to declare the day of his birth a day of darkness and sorrow, a day on which no person should have been born (8-10). If he had to be born, he wishes he had been stillborn. Then he would have gone... read more