욥기 3:15-19 Krv
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 3:1-26
The eloquence of grief. This book, so entirely true to nature, presents here one of the darkest moods of the grief-stricken heart. The first state is that of paralyzed silence, dumbness, inertia. Were this to continue, death must ensue. Stagnation will be fatal. The currents of thought and feeling must in some way be set flowing in their accustomed channels, as in the beautiful little poem of Tennyson on the mother suddenly bereaved of her warrior-lord- "All her maidens, wondering, said, ... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 3:11-19
The stricken patriarch's lament: 2. Bewailing his life. I. THE DESPISED GIFT — LIFE . In bitterness of soul, Job not only laments that ever he had entered on the stage of existence at all, but with the perverse ingenuity of grief which looks at all things crosswise, he turns the very mercies of God into occasions of complaint, despising God's care of him: 1 . Before birth. "Why died I not from the womb?" i.e. while I was yet unborn; surely a display of monstrous ingratitude,... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 3:13-19
The grave. I. A REGION OF IMPENETRABLE DARKNESS . II. A REALM OF UNBROKEN SILENCE . III. AN ABODE OF DEEP TRANQUILLITY . IV. A BED OF PEACEFUL SLUMBER . V. A WORLD OF ABSOLUTE EQUALITY . VI. A PLACE OF UNIVERSAL RENDEZVOUS . VII. A HOUSE OF TEMPORARY LODGING . LESSONS . 1 . Humility. 2 . Contentment. 3 . Diligence. 4 . Watchfulness. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 3:13-19
The grave a rest. In the toil and sorrow of life men long for rest. They lighten the toils and brighten the darkness of the present by the hope of repose and gladness in the future. Without such a hope life's burdens would be much heavier than they are; and in some cases almost insupportable. As the worn labourer longs for the rest of the even-tide, so does the over-wrought spirit of the sad desire the rest of the grave. It is proper to consider if this is a healthy, a just, a well-grounded... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 3:15
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver . This may either mean simply," princes who were rich in silver and gold during their lifetime," or "princes who have gold and silver buried with them in their tombs." It was the custom in Egypt, in Phoenicia, and elsewhere throughout the East, to bury large quantities of treasure, especially gold and silver vessels, and jewellery, in the sepulchres of kings and other great men. A tomb of a Scythian king in the Crimea, opened... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 3:16
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light . This is added as another way in which Job might have escaped his misery. Though conceived and brought to the birth, he might have been still-born, and so have known no suffering. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 3:16
To be or not to be. I. AGAINST BEING AND IN FAVOUR OF NOT - BEING . 1 . Life is little other than a capacity for suffering affliction. 2 . At the best, life is so short, and man's powers so feeble, that nothing he undertakes can attain to perfection. 3 . In every instance life involves the terrible necessity and painful experience of dying. 4 . Life always carries in its bosom the possibility of coming short of everlasting felicity. II. IN FAVOUR OF ... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Job 3:17
There . The word has no expressed antecedent, but the general tenor of the passage supplies one. "There" is equivalent to "in the grave." The wicked cease from troubling ; i.e. " cease from their state of continual perturbation and unrest" (comp. Isaiah 57:20 , "But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt "). This is their condition, so long as they live; nothing satisfies them; they are always in trouble themselves, and always... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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 difference. The grave is "The appointed place of rendezvous, where all These travelers meet." Equality is absolute among the sons of men in their entrance into and exit from the world: all the intermediate state is disparity. All men begin and end life alike; and there is no difference between the king and... read more