E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 3:5
the shadow of death. Hebrew. zalmaveth = the darkness of death. stain it = pollute it. Hebrew. ga'al, to pollute; not ga'al, to redeem. read more
約伯記 3:5 Cunpts
E.W. Bullinger
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 3:5
Job 3:5. Let darkness—stain it, &c.— Let darkness—claim it; let thick night involve it. Houbigant; who observes well, that there enters nothing of pollution into the idea of darkness. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 3:5
5. Let . . . the shadow of death—("deepest darkness," :-). stain it—This is a later sense of the verb [GESENIUS]; better the old and more poetic idea, "Let darkness (the ancient night of chaotic gloom) resume its rights over light ( :-), and claim that day as its own." a cloud—collectively, a gathered mass of dark clouds. the blackness of the day terrify it—literally, "the obscurations"; whatever darkens the day [GESENIUS]. The verb in Hebrew expresses sudden terrifying. May it be suddenly... 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
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 3:5
(5) Stain.—Literally, redeem—i.e., claim as their rightful inheritance. The other meaning enters into this word, as in Isaiah 63:3; Malachi 1:7.Blackness of the day—i.e., preternatural darkness, inopportune and unexpected darkness, like that of eclipses, &c. 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