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
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 3:15-16
Job 3:15-16. Or with princes that had gold, &c. My repose and security from worldly anxieties would have been the same with that of those princes who were once celebrated for their wealth, and whose birth entitled them to large treasures of gold and silver. Or as a hidden That is, undiscerned and unregarded; untimely birth Born before the due time, and therefore extinct. I had not been To wit, in the land of the living, of which he here speaks; as infants which never saw light ... read more