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Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 3:1-26

Chapter 3And finally Job spoke up. Job begins to curse the day of his birth.Job opened his mouth, and he cursed his day ( Job 3:1 ).Notice he didn't curse God; just the day in which he was born.Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a boy that is conceived. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 3:1-26

Job 3:1 . After this opened Job his mouth. The Masoretic Jews, as well as our modern divines, seem agreed that Job now began the drama, and spake in poetic effusions of verse. They say the same of the prophets; and our infidels call the prophets all poets. The psalms we know have a poetic character, and mostly run in metaboles. But where shall we find in the prophetic writings, with the exception of certain passages, any thing analogous to ancient poësy? We have Greek poetry of various... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 3:1-26

Job 3:1-26After this opened Job his month, and cursed his day.The peril of impulsive speechIn regard to this chapter, containing the first speech of Job, we may remark that it is impossible to approve the spirit which it exhibits, or to believe that it was acceptable to God. It laid the foundation for the reflections--many of them exceedingly just--in the following chapters, and led his friends to doubt whether such a man could be truly pious. The spirit which is manifested in this chapter is... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 3:2

Job 3:2 And Job spake, and said, Ver. 2. And Job spake, and said ] Heb. Answered and said. Answered? Whom answered he? The Jewish doctors say, he answered his friends, who having hitherto said nothing to him, and heard as little from him, at length - rupere silentia voce, to destroy a silent voice, and asked him what he ailed? others more probably conceive that Job answered here to some dispute in his own mind, or rather with the devil. Some take this verse for a transition only. Others make... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 3:2

spake: Heb. answered, Judges 18:14 Reciprocal: Job 4:1 - answered read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 3:2

2. Job spake Hebrew, answered. Not their words, but their thoughts, as he had divined them. Or it may have respect to the occurrences of the last seven days (Comp. Matthew 11:25.) Umbreit regards the word as intensive, and intended to increase the force of the following word. read more