Job 3:1-31:40 NIV

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 3:1

Job 3:1. After this Job opened his mouth The days of mourning being now over, and no hopes appearing of Job’s amendment, but his afflictions rather increasing, he bursts into a severe lamentation; he wishes he had never existed, or that his death had immediately followed his birth; life under such a load of calamity appearing to him the greatest affliction. Undoubtedly Satan, who had been permitted to bring the fore-mentioned calamities upon him, and to torment his body so dreadfully, had... read more

Donald C. Fleming

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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 3:1

After this: i.e. after this long restraint. cursed. Here we have the Hebrew kalal, which was in the primitive text. See note on Job 1:5 . his day: i.e. his birthday. Compare Job 3:3 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 3:1

JOB 3JOB'S LAMENTJOB'S PITIFUL CRY FROM THE DEPTHS OF HIS AGONYHere we come to the long middle section of Job, which is characterized by a number of speeches by Job and his friends. These speeches are not mere conversation, but essay-like statements of the sentiments, theological convictions, philosophies and exhortations of the speakers."Job speaks nine times in this section, Eliphaz and Bildad three times each, Zophar twice, Elihu once, and God once, his declaration ending the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 3:1

CHAP. III. Job detests the day of his birth; wishes that he had never been born, and complains that the thing which he feared is come upon him. Before Christ 1645. Job 3:1. After this opened Job his mouth— The days of mourning being now over, and no hopes appearing of Job's amendment, but his afflictions rather increasing, he bursts into a severe lamentation, and wishes that he had never existed, or that his death had immediately followed his birth; life, under such a load of calamity,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 3:1

1. opened his mouth—The Orientals speak seldom, and then sententiously; hence this formula expressing deliberation and gravity ( :-). He formally began. cursed his day—the strict Hebrew word for "cursing:" not the same as in Job 1:5. Job cursed his birthday, but not his God. 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

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 3:1

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 3:1-26

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 3:1

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 3:1

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 3:1

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 3:1

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 3:1-6

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 3:1-10

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 3:1-26

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 3:1-26

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